Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Vinayakrao Patil, Mahavidyalaya, Vaijapur, India
Online published on 18 August, 2012.
Regional imbalance may be natural due to unequal natural endowments or man-made in the sense of neglect of some regions and preference of others for investment & development efforts. Regional imbalances may be inter-state or intrastate; they may be total or sectoral.
This paper is an attempt to analyse the Regional Imbalance in India. In this study, the 15 major states of India have been classified into two major groups: Forward states and backward states. The yearly data on Net State Domestic Products, Per capita Net State Domestic Products and Human Development Index for 1981, 1991 and 2001 have been sought from various secondary sources such as ‘Economic Survey-2006-07’; ‘Human Development Report (2001) and EPW, Feb. 2000. The present study uses the sample statistical tools like percentage.
In the present study it is found that the Government of India use the some policy measures like transfer of financial resources from the Centre to the States; Special area development programme and to promote private investment in backward areas for removing inter-state disparities and unbalanced development. But Government of India is not successful in growing the balanced development and removing the regional imbalance.
Human Development, Infrastructure, Regional imbalance, Regional Disparities
