Impact of settlement pattern on rural electrification in Bangladesh: A case study of Jalma union of Batiaghata Upazilla
1.1 Background of the study Bangladesh is an agro-based country. Eighty percent of its population lives in rural area and most of them dependent on agriculture, directly or indirectly. Their way of residing is compact or disperses in context of rural settlement. Most of the people in the villages are living in the joint family. Only a little number of them is living as single family. In the rural area, the vacant lands are being captured day after day by the residential land uses for the newly crated families. Therefore, the rural settlements are increasing day after day. The villagers are eager to achieve the urban facilities for their agriculture productivity, comfortable life and home based recreation. As a result, they are working heard and soul. Therefore, development depends on various factors and facilities. One of the important factors of such namely urban opportunities is the living and settlement pattern of the villagers. Technology is the most important factor for t