General development characteristics | Urban | Semi-urban | Rural |
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Physical characteristics | • Largely flat terrain | • Mix of hills & plains | • Rocky steep slopes |
• Clustered housing pattern | • Majority clustered housing pattern | • Forest cover | |
• Scattered houses spread over 4 sq kms. | |||
Accessibility (approach road, distance from town, variety of transport available) | • Good roads | • Good roads | • Good roads surrounding villages but kuccha roads inside the village |
• Situated along highway connecting other provinces | • Within 15 kms of two towns | • 30 kms. from block head quarters | |
• 30 kms from district headquarters | • Connected through buses and private transport | • Buses 2 times a day | |
• Connected by railways, buses, private transport | |||
Availability of childbirth services in Government health facilities | • Best performing round the clock government Primary Health Centre (PHC) | • Non functional round the clock PHC and CHC | • Non functional round the clock PHC |
• Non functional Community Health Centre (CHC) | • Functional subdistrict hospital 30 kms. Away | ||
Availability of Private facilities | • Majority of district private doctors enrolled in Chiranjeevi Yojana (CY) in city near block | • Majority of private doctors enrolled in CY in city of adjoining district | • Only two CY doctors at block town |