<p>Geographer’s concern with development offers a unique synthesis of physical, economic and social development and environmental preservation of a specific region, which constitutes the identification and analysis of spatial and temporal disparities of that area in terms of its level of development. The present study, based on secondary data obtained from District Census Hand Books, District Statistical Hand Books and District Human Development Reports, deals with the availability and the advancement of different social facilities (educational, health and infrastructural), at different blocks of the undivided Medinipur district of West Bengal, India, at two points of time corresponding to the census years of 2001 and 2011. The Composite Development Index (CDI) of fifty-four blocks under the undivided Medinipur district has been calculated based on an aggregation of the values by giving equal weightage of thirty sub-dimensional variables under three dimensions, viz., education, health and infrastructure. The aggregation of relative scores by Z score transformation has been employed to compute and examine the level of development in the study area. The result of the study confirms remarkable regional variations in the level of development among different blocks in the study area. It also shows considerable development inequality between the eastern and western parts of the region. Therefore, improvement in social facilities at a micro-level is very much necessary to strengthen the balanced development of a region. Further, more deprived areas need spatial attention for the distribution of socio-economic facilities in a systematic manner.</p>