A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF WEEKLY MARKET CENTRES IN PANDHARPUR TAHSIL

Market Centres are economically most important and represent the region pattern ofdevelopment. They provide trade and commerce to the region and also help in increasing social contact,serve as centers of diffusion and become focus for political and other activities. Hence the market centreshave predominant economic important in any region. For the convenience of study, based on duration,market centres are divided in two daily and weekly market centres. In the rural economy weekly marketcenters plays an important role in exchanging the local produce through certain norms where 'system ofrural markets serve as the nodal points for the collection and distribution of large range of goods andservices of both local and external origin'.