The gap between rural and urban areas has been growing not only in terms of per
capita income but also in terms of literacy, access to drinking water,
sanitation and health services. Against this background, the authors of this
book analyse the pace, and extent of rural-urban disparity hi Karnataka and the
factors contributing to the same with the help of both macro and micro data. The
authors provide an understanding of various dimensions such as access to
drinking water, educational attainment, utilization of health services, access
to electricity and income. In this book, the authors show that there has been in
general, a decline in the