Abstract:
The development of area is the most important part in this 21st century when the
world countries have come under the globalization. The difference between the
village and the town is an obstruction for the development of area. The
development of the villages is considered as the development of the nation since
the share of the villages is more than the share of the town in extent and
population. The village is meant that an area or colony consisting of cottage or
houses, made by the people for their existence during the gradual civilization of
the humanity .But the town is meant a large human colony where various people
live together and it bears certain qualities. The Thenmaradchchi area was
researched utilizing the simple random model technique. The village of
Sankaththanai (J/302), located nearest to Chavakachcheri town, which was
considered as town and the village of varany iyattalai (J/343) which is considered
as a highly populated remote village was taken for research utilizing the simple
random model technique. The important problem of this research is the difference
between the town and village, which is an obstruction for the development of this
area. This is to say the difference between the village and the town in utilizing the
resources and the availability of same, which is viewed on the ground of economic
or non – economic factor, paves way for the impediment of the development of
village and town areas. Thereby, the social and economic differences between the
people of the village and town creates lot of problems such as inequality in
income, poverty, unemployment, inequality of resources and less development .It
is impossible to reach the development of Thenmaradchchi area since the
difference between the town and village leads for the economical imbalance and
the inequality of the social and economic standard. This research was resorted on
the gourd of the difference between the town and village. The main aim of this
research is to find out the social and economic difference between the people of
town and village of Thenmaradchi area.10% of the model family (46 families)
were selected through simple random model technique from the grama sevaka
divisions of J/302 and J/343 .The dates were collected by issuing questionnaires,
discussion and based on secondary information. It is observed that there is
economical difference between the town and village in Thenmaradchchi area. This
difference is considered as hypothesis 1(H1). The non-economical difference
between the village and town in thenmaradchchi area is considered as hypothesis
2(H2). For this research, all the data were analyzed through SPSS and a clear result
was obtained. The study found that there are economical and non-economical
difference between the village and town of Thenmaradchchi region.