(i) There are a few areas like the metropolitan centres and other develop enclaves that have all the modem facilities available to a small section of its population. 

(ii) At another side, there are large small areas and the slums in the urban areas that do not have basic amenities like potable water, education and health infrastructure available to majority of this population. 

(iii) The situation is more alarming if one looks at the distribution of the development opportunities among different section of the society. It is a fact majority of the scheduled castes and tribes, landless agricultural labourers, poor farmers and slums dwellers etc are the marginalised lot. 

(iv) A large segment of female population is the worst sufferers among all. It is equally true that the relative as well as absolute conditions of the majority of these marginalised sections have worsened with the development heppening over the years. 

(v) A large majority of people are compelled to live under abject poverty and subhuman conditions. An interrelated aspect of development that has direct bearings on the deteriorating human conditions.