Disparities in India : A Development Perspective

Contents: Foreword. I. Disparity in growth and development issues: 1. Rural-urban development disparities in India/Kaveri Sarkar. 2. Regional disparity in India: issues-related to inter-state variations/Dhiraj Kumar Bandyopadhyay. 3. Regional pattern of disparities and levels of living in India/Dalip Kumar. 4. Regional disparities in levels of living in India/H.C.L. Das. 5. Inter-state disparities in India under liberalised regime: extent, trends and sources/Kulwant Singh Phull. 6. Inter-regional disparities: threats and challenges/S.K. Pant, Firdaus Fatima Rizvi and D.C. Pathak. 7. Inter-regional disparities with multi-dimensional aspects in India/V.L. Lavanya and B. Karthikeyan. 8. Inter-regional disparities in India/Pradeep Punjabi and Prashant Bhardwaj. 9. Inter-regional disparities in India's development/Mandakini R. Mahore and A.S. Mohammad. 10. Inter-regional disparities in India's development/Rama J. Shah and Rita N. Patel. 11. Industrial disparity in India: an analysis of UP vis-a-vis Maharashtra and Gujarat/Rajesh Kumar Singh and Vijay Nath Dubey. 12. Regional disparity in Indian development/Bhavesh N. Desi, Ashok B. Trivedi and Dipak R. Chaudhari. 13. Regional disparities across Indian states: a sector-wise analysis/Pooja Sikka. 14. Reforms and regional disparities in India/Upendra Sah, Hira Lal Ram and Uma Shankar Bharti. 15. Inter-regional disparities in India/S.K. Dhage, B.G. Loo and S.N. Nukale. 16. Disparities within India's different regions why does the same countries government work differently in different states?/G. Vanithamani and Shiny Thankachan. 17. Estimating regional disparities in economic growth: a case study of Indian states/Achal Kumar Gaur. 18. Inter-state disparities in India: a similarity matrix approach/Mahalaya Chatterjee. 19. Regional development and locational dynamics in Andhra Pradesh/K. Madhu Babu. 20. Regional socio-economic disparities in India: with special reference to Assam economy/Kumud Bhagawati. 21. Economic development and disparities in Maharashtra/Kavita S. Sharma. 22. Economic growth and regional disparity in Uttar Pradesh/S.P. Singh. 23. Inter-regional disparities: a study of Uttar Pradesh/Nidhi Sharma. 24. Inter-state disparities in marine fisheries development/K. Pazhani and S. Jesi Isabella. II. Disparity in agriculture and allied activities: 25. Inter-state and inter-regional disparities in production and productivity of food grains in India (1970-71 to 2006-07)/Amrita Nandi. 26. Inter-regional disparities in India: a comparative study of agricultural development in each zonal state/N.K. Thakur. 27. Regional disparity in agri-infrastructure with particular reference to irrigation development in the post-reform period/R.K. Panda. 28. Growing inter-state disparities in Indian agriculture/Nazia Iqbal Hashmi. 29. Regional disparities in agricultural development of Andhra Pradesh--a factor analysis/B. Sudhakar Reddy. 30. Removing regional differences through improved irrigation facilities in Andhra Pradesh (Jalayagnam)/K. Raja Babu, M. Sridevi, R. Rohini and Venkata Narayana. 31. Inter-district variations in the average yield of selected crops in the state of Haryana/Anil Kumar and Inderjeet Singh. 32. An analysis of inter-district variations in the level of foodgrains productivity in Rajasthan/Manjushri Gupta and Manju Yadav. III. Disparity in social sector: 33. Problem of regional imbalances--an analysis of social sector/Dastgir Alam. 34. Public health expenditure and health status in India: an inter-state analysis/Kuldip Kaur, Seozy Bhatia and Paramjeet Kaur Dhindsa. 35. Rural/urban health disparity in India/Nighat Ahmad. 36. Inter-state variation in health status in India: significance of nutritional status and health awareness/Bipul Malakar and Montu Bose. 37. Regional imbalances in health facilities in coastal Andhra Pradesh/M.V. Narasimha Sarma and D.Kailasa Rao. 38. Determinants of health disparities in Madhya Pradesh: need for region specific approach/Mona Khare. 39. Regional disparities in education with special reference to secondary level: issues and challenges/Vinayak Kant Mishra and Prahlad Kumar. 40. Inter-state disparities in technical education in India: challenges for 2030/Nisha and Prahlad Kumar. 41. Human development in India: an inter-state analysis/Minati Mallick and Jagannath Lenka. IV. Disparity in infrastructure and development: 42. A review of inter-state disparities in telecom sector in India/Archana Rani Srivastava and Jagdish Narayan. 43. Infrastructure disparity and role of MPLAD scheme: a case study of Allahabad (UP)/Girish Chandra Tripathi, Abhishek Kumar Pandey and Shilpi Tiwari. 44. Inter-state pattern of technology achievement in India/Alpana Kateja. 45. Inter-state disparities in banking operations in India: a study of UP and Uttarakhand/Nisar Ahmad Khan. 46. Regional imbalances in India--an analysis of industrial disparity in UP, MP, Rajasthan and Maharashtra/Shakshi Chaudhary. V. Disparity in employment: 47. Regional disparities in growth and employment in India/Samik Shome. 48. Regional disparities and level of employment in India/Mohammad Asif and Jyoti Obia. 49. Regional development and occupational shift in Madhya Pradesh: an inter-temporal analysis/Roopali Shevalkar. VI. Disparity in financial system and policy formulation: 50. Need of an integrated price policy in an inter-regional and inter-sectoral frame of the Indian economy/Binoy N. Verma and Abhas Saurabh. 51. Inter-regional disparity of foreign direct investment in India after economic reforms/Brajesh Srivastava. 52. Inter-state income disparities and the transfer of resources from the union to the states/R.K. Bansal and J.R. Gupta. Index.

"This book covers a variety of themes and approaches. A number of papers focus on inter-state income disparities, while some others dwell on intra-state income disparities. Going beyond income, a group of papers in the volume focus on disparities in the agricultural sector. A third section in the book brings together papers on disparities in the social sector development. These papers deal with synthetic indicators of the levels of living, human development, health, education, and social groups. A whole section in this book deals with employment disparities. Another sector comprises of papers on infrastructure and industrial development. A final section covers papers on fiscal flows and the financial sector. Taken together, the papers in this volume offer a rich analysis of the empirical trends in regional disparity in India, the proximate determinants and relevant policy issues.

Presently, the pattern of development has led to sharp political cleavages and the reemergence of strong movements in many less developed regions. After more than a decade of neglect in the post-reform period, regional policy has resurfaced as part of a broader policy agenda of inclusive development. The papers in this volume therefore offer timely analysis of a range of issues concerned with regional disparities." (jacket)