Availability of basic amenities in planned and unplanned areas of Rohtak city

The present paper attempts to study the availability of basic amenities such as safe drinking water, toilet facility, drainage connectivity and availability of electricity, LPG in selected wards of Rohtak Municipal Corporation in planned areas and unplanned areas. The study is based on primary data collected during March 2018. In total 259 households were proposed from four selected wards (ward-1, 2 and ward 8, 9) through a semi-structured questionnaire. The ward level figures are tabulated on individual amenities. The standard deviation among the wards with respect to the concerned amenity is also worked out to study the level of variations among the wards even within the city limit. Among the major findings, it was observed that the availability of basic amenities is better in the areas that were developed as a part of planned area. Afterwards, the city somehow failed to cope with the haphazard urban sprawl resulting in a dismal condition of basic amenities in the periphery and areas having a greater percentage of slum households.