The present research work is focusing on understanding the level of rural development in sangli district at tehsil level. Level of rural development is the process of social and economic growth in a society. It is a process of socio-cultural, economic and environmental transformation. This study identifies the dimensions of intra-district regional disparities of Sangli district. In this paper, an attempt has been made to conduct a detailed analysis at the tehsil level. level of rural development level of rural development is computed by employing Edward Altman's Z Score formula (1968), which has been also used by David Smith (1979) for measuring the inequalities in the levels of development. Statistical technique has been used to show the level of rural development disparities within tehsils. Twelve variables have been used to measuring the status of rural development of each tehsil of the study region. It clearly shows that only Miraj and Walawa tahsil is highly socio-economically well in position because of well ranks in literacy rate, number of village having bus, health and post offices facilities, road density, MIDC. tahsil has low level of rural development, K-Mahankal, Atpadi, Shirala and Jat tehsil is affected by unfavourable climatic condition and physiography low the percentage of net sown area to total geographical area. Percentage of village having bus, health, post office facilities are very poor in nature in this tehsil.
Pusavale et al. (Fri,) studied this question.