Assistant Professor, Gitam University, Bangalore School of Management Studies, Bangalore
Online published on 7 April, 2014.
The present paper analyses the growth and spatial distribution of automobile industry in India among different states on the basis of ASI and CSO data for the period 1985–86 and 2006–07. At the time of independence, various regions in the country started with different infrastructure, physical endowments and various socio-economic factors are also responsible for the diverging performances of different regions. In India, by and large automobile industry locations have been influenced either by the availability of raw materials or political decisions. Pure economic considerations were seldom given weightage in the location of automobile industry. Thus automobile industrial development in India has remained concentrated in a few states like Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamilnadu. One important conclusion that emerges from this analysis is that though in absolute terms, the process of automobile industrialization is characterized by an inequality in its spatial distribution, the inter-state disparities in relative terms; tend to decline during the study period.
To the study the state-wise growth rates of the automobile industry in India.
To study the spatial distribution of automobile industry in selected sixteen states in terms of magnitude rating and increasing rating.
Automobile Industry, growth, spatial distribution, magnitude, regions, states, production
