The regional disparity is a challenging issue towards the urban planners, policy makers, academicians, bureaucrats and technocrats in the developing countries. In India, a wide range of socio-economic disparities are commonly evident even in Class-I cities. Such an undesirable phenomena reflect on the spatial variation of quality of life, level of living as well as well-being and welfare of the inhabitants. Moreover, it is against the constitutional law of equity and social justice. The present study is based on the empirical observation focused on ward-wise variation of availability and accessibility of socio-economic and utility services in Burdwan city of West Bengal. On the basis of ‘Principal Component Analysis’, entire set of data have been arranged into seven factors of which first three factors have been considered to examine the dimension of socio-economic disparities in the city.
