PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN RAJASTHAN: A CASE STUDY IN RURAL RAJASTHAN

The economic and social development of Rajasthan has been staggering leading to poor infrastructure development in village. Few studies depict that there is a severe lack of availability and accessibility of health care infrastructure for the population, even after introduction of many policies, schemes and programmes for the rural populace. The present study is an endeavour to study the problems faced by the rural populace in Bandarsindri Village of Kishangarh block, Ajmer District. The main of present study is to assess the availability and accessibility of public health care services among the residents of rural Rajasthan. Researcher adopted sample household was selected by cluster random sampling technique. The Bandarsindri panchayat population was divided in 15 clusters. In each cluster systematic sampling was applied where in ith item on the list of houses was taken according to the proportion. The result found that there are lack of public health care services and also lacking regarding for transportation. There are two major religions in Bandarsindri the Hindus and the Muslims , the total percentage of Hindus are 97.5% , and 2.5 % of Muslims, in which the percentage of various categories are OBC 60%, 30% of SC, General 4.5 % , ST 3% and Others 2.5 %. Majority of the family are joint families whose percentage is around 51%, where as nuclear families are around 49%. Around 42% of the Head of the families are still illiterate. Majority of the people are dependent on Agriculture and their yearly income is around Rs 30,000-100,000 where as Income source of family are 35% from agriculture, 11% from daily labor, 1% from salary, 1% from other sources and 52% respondent are belonging from both agriculture and daily wages.

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Keywords: Rural Rajasthan, Primary Health Care, Social Development and Poverty.


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