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Introduction
The ideology and parameters of analysing the
efforts of development has been diversified to a
greater extent and moreover the contemporary
social science does not confine itself within the
consideration of the process of development as a
cumulative process of enhancing the physical
quality of life of inhabitants; rather it tries to chalk
out the strategies to promote the capabilities of
the targeted community for ensuring convenient
accessibility to resources, enhancing
technological sophistication towards better
utilization of resources and after all moulding the
technical, structural and behavioural aspect of
communities towards possible best suit with the
targeted development plans of varying degree of
temporal resolutions. In India, the rapid increase
of population as well as the augmented rate of
per-capita energy consumption has been causing
an acute gap between the demand and supply of
energy. Since 1980s and still currently India has
encountered a negative balance between energy
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Study Area
The present study covers the two districts of Uttar
Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur. Before 1992 the
undivided districts of North Bengal, the West
Dinajpur is now the Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin
Dinajpur. Raiganj is the District Headquarter of
U/Dinajpur District having the geographical
location of 260 35'15'' N latitude and 870 48'37'' E
longitude. The district covers an area of 3140 km2
and accommodates a total of 3,000,849
populations; out of which 2,638,662 are rural
population. Balurghat is the District Headquarter
of the district of Dakshin Dinajpur and it is
Fig: 2: Location of the study area, i.e. Uttar and Dakshin Dinajpur Districts within the State of West Bengal
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Findings and
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Fig: 3 Per capita energy consumption pattern in rural and urban households in India
(Source: Interim Report IR-08-009, International Institute of Applied System Analysis)
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Table-3: Age specific affirmative response by male and female respondents towards installing clean energy
tools & technology within a year
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No. of
Respondents
within this category
Illiterate
Primary
Secondary/H.S.
Graduation
Higher
Total
41
92
175
63
12
380
No. of
Respondents gives
affirmative answers
Percentage
4
23
52
45
11
135
9.76
25.00
30.23
71.43
91.67
Response
Yes
Illiterate
Primary
Secondary/ H.S.
Graduation
Higher
10
19
28
37
46
55
64
73
82
91
100
109
118
127
136
145
154
163
172
181
190
199
208
217
226
235
244
253
262
271
280
289
298
307
316
325
334
343
352
361
370
379
No
No. of Respondents
Fig: 6 - Relationship between educational attainment and affirmative response to possess clean technology
within one year.
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No of
respondents
belong to
this
category
No of
respondents
responded
affirmatively
Percentage
of
affirmation
< 10000
21
0.00
10000 - 19999
32
0.00
20000 - 29999
39
11
28.21
30000 - 39999
47
11
23.40
40000 -49999
64
16
25.00
50000 - 99999
57
13
22.81
100000 - 149000
41
20
48.78
150000 - 199999
27
22
81.48
200000 - 299999
21
14
66.67
300000 - 399999
18
16
88.89
400000 - 499999
100.00
83.33
380
135
Total
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8 (A)
8 (B)
Fig: 8: Time-lag graph towards adopting clean energy technology. (A) With observed frequency;
(B) With Theoretical Frequencies using Binomial Distribution
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Appendix-2
Generalized distribution of trend of affirmation when the option of time limit is given for five years
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Appendix-3
Generalized distribution of trend of affirmation when the option of time limit is given for ten years
Mukunda Mishra
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Dr. Meghnad Saha College, W.B., India
Md. Enarul Hoque
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Dr. Meghnad Saha College, W.B., India
Corresponding author: mukundamishra01@gmail.com
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