A GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY OF WEEKLY MARKET CENTRES IN PANDHARPUR TAHSIL

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