A REPORT ON SOCIO- ECONOMIC SURVEY OF PARSADA VILLAGE

PALI, KORBA –CHHATTISGARH

(A Village Attachment Report)

Submitted for partial fulfillment of requirement for the degree the Bachelor of Science
in Forestry

SESSION- 2023-24

Under the Supervision – – Submitted By

Dr. ajay kumar singh Onkar singh rajput

Assistant professor,
B.sc. Forestry 8th semester
Department Of Forestry,
Roll no- 20007043
Wildlife and Environmental
Enrollment no- GGV/20/06546
Sciences,
GGV, Bilaspur.

DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

GURU GHASIDAS VISHWAVIDHYALAYA BILASPUR (C.G)

(A Central University Establishment under Central University Act 2009, No. 25 0f 2009)

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 Declaration

I hereby declare that the present village attachment report entitled- “Socio- Economic Survey of
Parsada Village, Korba, Chhattisgarh” interpretation or part has not been submitted for any
degree or diploma of any university. The source of material and all assistance received during
the course of investigation have been duly acknowledged. All the records and data given in the
report are correct to my knowledge.

Onkar Singh Rajput

B.sc. Forestry 8th semester
Roll no- 20007043
Enrollment no- GGV/20/06546

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 Acknowledgement

Expression of giving thanks are just a part of those feeling which are too large for words, but shall
remain as memories of wonderful people with whom I have got the pleasure of working during the
completion of the survey.

University is an organization which trains a lot of technical trainees, they not only train the students but
they change the entire prospect of our life.

I am also thankful to Prof. SC tiwari, dean, school of natural resources, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidhyalay,
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh for academic help and motivation.

I take this opportunity to thank Prof. K.K. Chandra, head, department of Forestry, Wildlife &
Environmental sciences, GGV for boosting our confidence for such field work and academic motivation
for successful completion for our project.

I am grateful to my mentor Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh, assistant professor, department of forestry, wildlife
and environmental sciences, GGV for his guidance and support during project work and report writing.

I also like to thanks to coordinate Dr. Chowlani Manpoong (assistant professor) and Dr. Gunjan Patil
(assistant professor) , department of forestry, wildlife and environmental sciences, GGV for their never
ending support and motivation and also their helping nature towards the students.

I would also like to thank village head and village people for cooperating during the data collection.

Onkar singh rajput

B.sc. forestry 8th semester
Roll No- 20007043
Enrollment No- GGV/20/06546

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 GURU GHASIDAS VISHWAVIDHYALAYA BILASPUR (C.G)
(A Central University Establishment under Central University Act 2009, No. 25 0f 2009)

DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Certificate
This is to certify that Mr. Onkar Singh Rajput S/o Mr. Rup Singh Rajput, bearing Enrollment No-
GGV/20/06546 of Department of forestry, Wildlife and environmental Sciences has completed
this training entitled “Training Report On Social- Economic Survey Of Village Parsada” under
our guidance.

We wish his all the success in his academics.

Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh

Assistant Professor
Department Of Forestry
GGV, Bilaspur

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 S.No. Title Page No.
CHAPTER 01 INTRODUTION 6-11

CHAPTER 02 VILLAGE PROFILE 12-15

CHAPTER 03 DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF PARSADA 16-22

CHAPTER 04 FOREST AND INDUSTRIES 23-24

CHAPTER 05 PROBLEMS 25-26

CHAPTER 06 SUGGESTIONS 27

CHAPTER 07 CONCLUSIONS 28

CHAPTER 08 REFERENCE 29

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 CHAPTER-01

INTRODUCTION

1.1 SOCIO-ECONOMIC SURVEY –

SOCIO- ECONOMIC survey is an assessment between the social and economic habits of the society.
Socio- economic links the financial and social and economic habits of the society. Socio- economic
links the financial and social issues together. These surveys are designed to collect information
regarding available local resources, resource use and management system and relative importance
of resources for households and villages. Also, Socio- economic survey and its analysis help to know
about the problem of the area and steps and plan to solve it. Socio economic status is based on
income, education level, occupation, social status, perception and various other factors.

1.2 DEFINITION
Social economics is a branch of economics that focuses on the relationship between social behavior
and economics and it examples how social norms, ethics and other social philosophies that
influences consumer behavior shape an economy, and uses history, politics and other social sciences
to examine potential results from changes to society or the economy. Social economics refers
broadly to the “use of economics in the study of society”. In general, it studies the relation of
economics to social values.

1.3 IMPORTANCE OF SOCIO- ECONOMIC SURVEY

Socio- economic observation helps to get the details about-
1. Social, political, economic aspects of a territory.
2. Cultures and customs of the villages.
3. Regarding the educational status and literacy rate.
4. Demographic profile of the society.
5. Provides information about health and medical conditions.

1.4 SOCIO ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT

Socio economic environment refers to a wide range of interrelated and diverse aspects
and variables relating to or involving a combination of social and economic factors.
These aspects and variables could in general be categorized into several categories
including, economic, demographic, public services, fiscal and social. The social aspects
may, for instance, involve community life as well as social and cultural attitude and
values. Community services may meanwhile be concerned with housing and
requirements for publics’ services such as water, sanitation, communications, police and
fire protection facilities, solid waste disposal as well as health and educational services.
Demographic aspects may include general characteristics, structure and changes various
economic activities and employment.
A socio economic assessment is a way to learn about the social, cultural, economic and political
conditions of any village including individual, groups, communities or the entire area. The socio
economic study is intended to –

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  Analyze the impacts of the prevailing study on the socio- economic structure of the study
sites.
 Develop a set of guidelines for judging the local conditions.
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1.5 AIM OF THE SURVEY

the main aim of the survey is to know and understand about the socio- economic conditions of the
village Parsada – Pali, Korba. To identify and enlist the strength and weakness of the village and
then to find a way a boost the strengths and overcome the weakness.

1.6 OBJECTIVES OF SURVEY

the main aim of the weak, i.e. the overall purpose of the study was clear and concisely defined. The
overall study objective was to know about the socio- economic status of the Parsada, to identify
various obstacles in growth, development process and to formulate a broad planning and
development framework. The development of area depends upon Socio- economic setting of the
area. The basic aims and objectives of our survey were-

1. To collect information on demographic population, age distribution, residence patterns and

ratio of men to woman.
2. To know about the population growth and their views and consciousness regarding this
3. To collect data on the local area, it’s past and present and various problems of Socio-
economic condition.
4. To know about the educational status of the particular village and reasons of their
backwardness if any.
5. To know about the transportation and communication facilities of the village.
6. To gathered information about energy source- collection of fuel wood, use of L.P.G gas and
other fuel related sources.
7. To collect data on different schemes on going in the villages and how much villagers get
benefited from Government scheme.
8. To know about the agriculture, livestock and livelihood of the villagers.
9. To know about the health and hygiene of the villagers and medical facilities of the area.
10. To know about the domestic production of the villagers.

1.7 METHODOLOGY ADOPTED FOR SURVEY

For a socio economic study to be organized and conducted properly, it should be systematic, and
have minimum bias, and allow for consistent comparison and reasoned judgment. For all this to be
accomplishment, carefully planned, very precise and logical work methodologies are usually
developed.

1.7.1 SELECTION OF AREA

area should be selected for the particular socio economic survey has been chosen after the great
consideration and to meet with the objective of survey. Villages Parsada was chosen because of

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 its location. Parsada village is located in Pali tehsil of Korba district in Chhattisgarh, India. It is
situated 34 km away from Bilaspur.

One Way Road to Parsada village Google map Of Parsada Village

1.7.2 Developing baseline conditions-

This section can be considered as a preparatory work which includes data and
information collection from secondary sources such as Census data, Internet,
Informative materials; including statistics, research work, study reports that may
provide data and information about conditions in the survey site, have to be
reviewed. This includes available data and information about various socioeconomic
aspects, environmental quality, physical aspects, geographical aspects and previous
as well as current development schemes of the village.

1.7.3 Developing questionnaire

This aspect is very important in order to end up with the right answers needed for
this research work and avoid any possible biases. The questions should be
understandable to all individuals and should be asked in appropriate order.

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 Questionnaires for socio-economical survey of Parsada village

1.7.4 Data Collection-

For the collection of Data there were namely

two sources;

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1) Household

2) other

1. Household: The members of the contacted families and family head specifically
were the main source for the collection of data .All the information regarding cultural
system, literacy status, age structure, health and hygiene, occupation, domestic
production, income, settlement pattern, transport etc. were shared by them.

2. Others: Some data were collected from the Panchayat members and various
reference books were other sources of consolidating information for the socioeconomic
survey of area.

Sarpanch of Parsada - Shri Balaram Aarmo Panchayat

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1.7.5 data entry and verification

Dealing with large amount of data requires a systematic approach for data coding, tabulating
and entry. It should be noted that, before data entry, the collected data should be verified.
Such verification could be carried out for all collected data or for the random sample of the
data.
1.7.6 data analysis and representation

Data collected in form of questionnaires are then filled in Microsoft excel v 2007 for the
systematic approach for the data coding, tabulation, entry and analysis of the data and
socio- economic status of the area

1.8 VILLAGE

A village is a clustered human settlement or community. A village is a small settlement

usually found in a rural setting. It is generally larger than a "hamlet" but smaller than a
"town" with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand(sometimes
tens of thousands).Though often located in rural areas. Some geographers specifically
define a village as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants
In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice
subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. There are basically
2 types of popular villages and they are known for the type of neighborhood they share,
those are:

1) Revenue village- A Revenue Village is a small administrative region in India, a

village with defined borders. One revenue village may contain many hamlets; a
village paid the tax for the land and the peoples come under BPL category are not
going to pay any tax for their land.

2) Forest village- Village Forest is constituted under section 28 of the Indian Forest
Act, 1927. The Government may assign to any village community the rights over
a land which may not be a part of a reserved forest for use of the community.
Usually, forested community lands are constituted into Village Grazing Reserve
[VGR]. Parcels of land are so notified are marked on the settlement revenue
maps of the villages.

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 Chapter- 02

VILLAGE PROFILE

2.1. general profile of the village –

The village parasda is located in pali Tahsil of Korba Dirstrict in the State of
Chhattisgarh in India. It is governed by Parsada Gram Panchayat. It comes under pali
Community Development Block . The nearest city is Bilaspur, which is about 36
kilometers away from Parsada. Parsada pin code is 495006 and postal head office is
spinning mills korba. . The sarpanch of the village is Mr.Balaram Aarmo.

VILLAGE Parsada
TEHSIL Pali
DISTRICT Korba
STATE Chhattisgarh
LAND AREA 415.08 hectares

HOUSEHOLDS 332
NEAREST VILLAGE Bilaspur
MALE POPULATION 779
FEMALE POPULATION 728
TOTAL POPULATION 1507
Table No: 1
(General information about the village)

The regular facilities that a village must have were present in Pali tehsil. The land
holding is mostly small and scattered. Agriculture was mainly self-sustained and
mostly people were engaged in daily wage works for their income.

2.2 village infrastructure

Infrastructure is the basic facilities and installations that help a government or

community run, including roads, schools, buildings etc. needed for society to function
effectively. Parsada is a small village having ample of infrastructure developments
including houses, roads, water connection, and primary/secondary schools. Some

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highlights are discussed below-

 Houses:
In the village, people live in both Kutcha house, Semi-Pucca as well as Pucca house;
but the majority of them have Kutcha house. Most of the houses have toilets built in
them.

Village Entrance Parasada village Maidan

 Educational Facilities:
The status of education of the village can be explained through, there is one
primary school, 1 high school and one higher secondary school.
Maximum number of people present in the village is not educated. Most of the
children go outside for education.

Higher secondary school High school 13

 Primary School Primary school students

 Anganbadi
There are 4 Anganbadi in the Village. The children of age 3-4 years come here.
Different types of meals are available to children which is very nutritious. Apart from
this vaccination is given to infants as well as children. Vaccination such as BCG,
DPT, Polio etc.

 Health & Hygine

In this village one government health center is present, that is allopathic sub
center.
Health is determined by many factors including income, environmental conditions,
access to adequate sanitation, safe water supplies. According to survey there is no
any serious health problem in the village.

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 Figure 1 Visiting Govt.
Hospital of Parsada village
 Others
Some of the other infrastructure includes Water tank, Hand pumps, Ponds and other
facilities which help in the daily life of the villagers. Some village peoples are
depend on this Govt. bore and other peoples are using government pipeline system
and many have private bore wells.

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 Chapter- 03

DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF PARSADA VILLAGE

 Demographics is the study of a population based on factors such as age,

race, and sex. Demographic data refers to socio-economic information
expressed statistically, also including employment, education, income,
marriage rates, birth and death rates and more factors. Governments,
corporations, and nongovernment organizations use demographics to
learn more about a population's characteristics for many purposes,
including policy development and economic market research.

 Knowledge about the demographic profile of a village helps to identify

and analyze the different socio-economic aspects of the village very
easily so that further developmental strategies can be made and carried
out which can lead to the development of the village and its people.
Correct Analysis is very important as all the decisions will be based on
this analysis only. Different forms of Tables, Charts (Bar Chart, Pie Chart)
and other statistical tools are used in order to get the analysis correct.
 All the data which is used below has been obtained from 2 major sources:-

 All India Census Report 2011 downloaded from the official website of Ministry of
Home Affairs, Government of India.
 Another set of data is collected through the Socio-Economic Survey conducted by
the class of B.Sc. Forestry 8th Semester. A sample from the survey (80+
Questionnaire Forms) were randomly selected and then further analysis as
carried out on the basis of that sample only.
1) POPULATION STATUS

Parsada village is located Pali tehsil of Korba district in Chhattisgarh,

India. In parsada village 332 families are there. Parsada has a total
population of 1507 people, out of which male population is 779 while

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female population is 728..

Pie chart showing Male and Female Population Status in Parsada village

2) SOCIAL ANATOMY

Social Anatomy or social structure is the distinctive, stable arrangement or

division of population of society into different layers or groups generally religion
or caste. In the village people majorly belonged to 3 castes i.e. Other Backward
Class (OBC), General and Schedule Tribe (ST). There is no Schedule Caste
(SC) in village. ST constitutes 50.33% of total population.

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 3) FINANCIAL ASSEST

Different type of card holder in village –

1. Ration card, 2. life insurance 3. Kisan credit card, 4. National saving
certificate, 5. Kisan vikas patra, 6. Postal saving account, 7. Ayushman
card

4) LANDSTATUS
Here two terms are derived first one is land cover and second is land use, land cover is what the
surface of the earth and land use describes how the land is used. Examples of land cover classes
included – water, snow, grassland, deciduous forest, and bare soil. Land use examples include-
wildlife management area, agricultural land, urban, recreation area etc.

In Parsada Village Here Land Is Observed Into Four Types- Agricultural Land, Residential Land,
Forest Land And Barren Land.

Agricultural land- 40%

Forest land – 25%

Residential land- 20%

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Barren land- 5%

5) HOUSING PATTERN

This attribute tells us about the housing status of the Parsada. Mainly there are 3 types of
house which are found in a village i.e.

a) Kutcha house- 30%

b) Semi- pucca house- 15%
c) Pucca house- 55%

6) DRAINAGE STATUS

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The drainage structures linked to individual household has been divided into 3 categories-

a) Underground- 5%
b) Open with outlet- 27%
c) Open without outlet – 68%

7) WATER SOURCE
Safe and readily available water is important for public health, whether it is used for
drinking, domestic use, and food production or recreation purposes. Improved water
supply sanitation, and better management of water sources, can boost economic growth
and contribute greatly to poverty reduction.
Water source is primarily divided into 4 types-
1) Bore (12 particulars)
2) Pipe water (30 particulars)
3) Hand pump (15 particulars)

8) LIVESTOCK Figure 2 Govt. Bore

In the village total 1189 households have livestock in their home and feed them. The
purpose of have livestock is to get milk form cow or goat, making cow dung cake for fuel
purpose, egg from hen and form eat from chicken, etc.
In the village total no. of animals-
 Cow – 500-600 (approx)
 Goat – 250-300 (approx)
 Hen/chicken – 300-400 (poultry) (2 farms)

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  Buffalo – 20-30
 Rabbit – 15-20 (on average)
 Dog – 50 (on average)

Figure 4 Goat and Cow Figure 3 cattle

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10) RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEM/COOKING SYSTEM

Mainly LPG and chulha system is used as energy purpose in the village.
1. 828.85 people use LPG
2. 527.45 people use chulha.
3. 150.7 villagers use heater

L.P.GChulha

62%

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11) HOW MUCH PEOPLE COMMUNICATE

Some of the people of the village are communicative like they have mobile phones
to communicate to the people according to their need; they have television in their
house and some of the villagers take newspaper. This depict that the people of
Parsada village are social and curious about what’s happening in the world.

12) MEDICAL FACILITIES AND HEALTH ISSUES

Villagers cannot afford the treatment in private hospitals so they prefer the
government hospital first which available in their village. But in case of emergency
then they visit the Bilaspur government hospital (CIMS) or private hospital as
Bilaspur is the nearest city from the village. People prefer Bilaspur as compare to
Korba.

 JHOLA CHHAP – 30%

 GOVT. AND PRIVATE- 5%
 PRIVATE – 12%
 GOVT. – 53%

Figure 5

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 Chapter- 04

FOREST AND INDUSTRIES

FOREST-

A forest is an area of land dominated by trees Hundreds of definitions of

forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree
density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function.
Forests are the predominant terrestrial ecosystem of Earth, and are found
around the globe. Forests account for 75% of the gross primary production
of the Earth's biosphere, and contain 80% of the Earth's plant biomass.
POSITIVE AND NEGETIVE ASPECTS OF FORESTRY-
 POSITIVE ASPECT
1. Forests purify the air.
2. Provide food and shelter to animals
3. Forests keep the earth and humans cool.

4. Taking a walk through the forest can benefit physical health.

5. Forest provides oxygen to lungs.

6. Forest purifies and provides clean water for our communities.

 NEGETIVE ASPECT

1. Forest fire
2. Nature of forest and their uneconomical utilization
3. Plant Diseases , Insects and Pests
4. Nature of Forest and their Uneconomical Utilization
INDUSTRIES –

By providing machinery, chemical, irrigation facilities, insecticides, pesticides ,

and other item , industry growth aid in the modernization of agriculture
activities.

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Industrial development aide in the reduction of unemployment and poverty.
Industrial development can generate foreign exchange by exporting finish
items, allowing it to expand trade and commerce.

Figure 7 Rice Mill of Parsada Village Figure 6 Site Visiting

 POSITIVE AND NEGETIVE ASPECTS OF INDUSTRY-
POSITIVE ASPECT
1. Industrialization brought us the current import-export market.
2. It allows us to become more productive.
3. Industrialization makes goods and services more affordable.
4. It improves the quality of life for each person and household.

 NEGETIVE ASPECT
1. Environmental pollution
2. Living near factories doesn’t always make condition better there.
3. Loss in agriculture production.

Chapter- 05

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 PROBLEMS

Problems are the matter or situation regarded as unwelcome in the development

of village. Major Problems in the Village-

1. The medical and health facility of the village is below average. Villagers are not
aware about the benefits of Health Insurance and many other schemes that are
being proposed by the government for the welfare of rural area people.

2. Water is little salty in taste, iron and led are present in underground water.
Digging of bore well is not giving successful result in most of the case. Rate of
bore well stabilization is very low in village.

3. There is no sewage system in the village. Village is having poor and open
drainage system. Drains are ill maintained covered with filth, heaps of garbage
and ash.

4. Only basic transport facilities are there in village Parsada, buses of two are
using as means of communication, some of villagers use their own tempo or auto
services in behalf of bus services. They earn money from doing these all works.

5. Upon analysis, it came to our notice that there are only 2 or 3 government
schemes which benefitted the villagers. Rest of the government schemes did not
reach the villagers. Hence, more efforts are needed from the government’s side
in order to make the schemes reach the correct set of people.

6.The shortage of electricity is also a major problem there, power cuts are being
faced by the villagers on a daily basis, in summer season the power cuts become
more frequent due to excess use of electricity. Government should look up to this
matter as soon as possible.(all of the village is covered by two transformers only)

7. Problem of network, network issues is the one of the huge problem there.
Particularly no mobile tower is there, village takes subordinated network from
nearby places.

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Figure 3 Crocodile Danger

Figure 3 Electricity problem

Figure 2 Water condition

Figure 5 Transportation

Figure 4 Education

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 Chapter – 06

SUGGESTIONS

Suggestions are basically the solutions to the problems faced by the villagers in day
to day life. On implementing the following suggestions, it will act as solutions to
the problems faced by villagers. Most of the suggestions were given the villagers
themselves as how they want their problems to be solved.

1. There should be a government hospital in village. So that villager get medical

facility near to home and this will also help in regulating regular health check-ups,
vaccination of villagers & creating awareness among villagers.

2. To provide good water facilities, more ponds and water tanks should be
constructed and water pipelines should be maintained every month.

3. A well planned sewage system should be constructed in the village and open
sewage line should be closed so that no diseases are spread nor any dirt is spread
which will keep the village clean and safe from waterborne diseases.

4. Proper transport means should be provided by the government through auto or

bus so that the villagers come to city and fulfill their needs.

5. The councilors of village Parsada should communicate with the villagers to know
the problem of the village and to spread awareness or to give information about
new rules, regulation of government and should also give full information of all
government schemes that are beneficial to villagers.

6. Animal vaccination program should be conducted in the village on monthly basis.

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 Chapter- 07

CONCLUSION

From the survey and analysis of the information collected from the village, it is
clear that the economic & living condition of the people of Parsada is poor, but
the attitude of the people towards the society is appreciable. The positive and
negative aspects of village are as following-

POSITIVE ASPECTS:
 Village has well-constructed CC main road connecting 3 big towns which is Bilaspur,
Ratanpur and Korba .
 Village has well-constructed government buildings like Panchayat bhawan,
schools, conman halls etc.
 Village has good source of children literacy by three Anganbadis and schools.
 Village has lot of sources of water; there are ponds in the village.
 Village is rich in domestic animal population and villagers are using them for
commercial purpose like milk selling etc.

NEGATIVE ASPECTS:
 The villagers are lacking awareness and knowledge.
 Sanitation facility is found not up to the mark in the village. Villagers are unhygienic.
 Village does not have solid waste management disposal center.
 Migration of the villagers to other places is one of the major problems in the village.
 Villagers not proper utilize government policies due to less knowledge.
 Government hospitals are not well maintained.

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REFERENCE

 https://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/436190-parsada-
chhattisgarh.html
 https://villageinfo.in/chhattisgarh/korba/pali/parsada.html

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