ORGANAZATION OF SERVICE CENTRES IN RURAL HILLY AREA OF KOLHAPUR DISTRICT (MS)

The identification of growth centers is an imperative not only their individual development but also
integrated areal development. The growth centers generates their own ideas or innovations or they are taken these
from higher order centers. They can diffuse these ideas or new innovations to their hinterland more effectively and
maintain regional balance development. The considering these things for study area, the identified growth centers
itself have limited number of functions beside this the distribution of these growth centers are uneven as well as they
are distantly distributed. Therefore, the available growth centers are unable to fulfill the requirement of their
complementary area.