Inter-District Inequality in Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland

Regional development concerns with development of regions and reduction of regionalinequality for balanced and inclusive development. Throughout the world, the process of development has been accompanied by inequality at various scales but with unequal intensity. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study pattern of intra-regional inequality in various dimensions of development in Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland at district level. With the help of Z-score method, composite indices have been developed to measure levels of development. It has been found out that capital districts were more developed while peripheral and border districts were less developed in various dimensions of development. There were three (3) clusters of relatively more developed districts viz. Imphal, Aizawl, and Kohima-Dimapur clusters.