Industry Trade and Economic Development : With Special Reference to North East India

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. North East region: 1. A geographical analysis of industrial backwardness in North-East India/D.K. Mandal. 2. Constraints to economic development in North-East India/Paritosh Chandra Dutta. 3. Unorganised manufacturing sector: a potential source of livelihood generation in the North Eastern region/Ira Das. 4. Informal border trade imperial industrialization in North-East India: a perception/Th. Priyokumar Singh. 5. Potentiality of Hydel power generation and its effect on industrial development in North-East India/D.K. Mandal.  6. Rubber industry in the hill villages of North-East India : an observation/Komol Singha. 7. Industrial growth and structure in the North-Eastern region: 1993 to 2005/L. Santomba Meetei. 8. Potentialities of industries and trade for future development of North-Eastern region/Dipti Khaund.  9. Development of fruit processing industry in North-East India: prospects and problems/N. Achouba. II. Assam: 10. Export potentialities of Assamese beer: a new paradigm/Chimun Kumar Nath and Ratul Dutta. 11. Problems and prospects of fruits and vegetables industries in Assam/Nabajit Deka, A.K. Sarmah and S. Kakoty. 12. Problems and prospects of brick industry in Assam: a case study of Rangia sub division/Jagadish Deka and Brajendra Saikia. 13. Small scale industries: its status and growth trends in Assam/Namita Das. 14. An overview of potentialities of tourism in Lakhimpur District/Padma Hazarika. III. Manipur: 15. Manipurs industrial growth: supply and demand side factors/E. Bijoykumar Singh. 16. The problems and prospects of industrialization in Manipur/A. Surenjit Singh. 17. Prospects of food processing industry based on horticultural products of Manipur/Ashraf Ali. IV. Arunachal Pradesh: 18. Income and employment situation in indigenous industrial activities: a case study of idu Mishmi Community of Arunachal Pradesh/Fames Linggi. 19. Development of industrial co-operatives in Arunachal Pradesh: a brief analysis/Hage Hassang. 20. Status of vocational programme for KVI sector: with special reference to Arunachal Pradesh/Sukamal Deb. 21. Inland waters : its values and threat perception in Arunachal Pradesh/P. Nath and Gopi G.V. 22. Growth of services sector in Arunachal Pradesh: introspection/A. Ibotombi Singh. 23. Industrialization in Arunachal Pradesh: new dimensions and challenges/Ram Krishna Mandal. 24. Tourism in Arunachal Pradesh: a case study of religious tourism/P.C. Panda. 25. Khadi and village industries in Arunachal Pradesh: problems and prospects/Deepali Mandal. 26. Constraints to industrial development of Arunachal Pradesh/Dani Chobin. V. Other region: 27. Tripura with other states of NER still Awaits a well formulated plan to be industrialized to catch up the growth rate of the nation/Swapanendu Sen. 28. The inefficiency of state owned enterprise SOEs and the privatization initiative in Bangladesh/Gazi Salah Uddin. Index.

There are differences among the North-East India with respect to their natural resource endowments levels of industrialization and infrastructural facilities. On the whole all the economies of the region are underdeveloped agrarian societies with very week industrial sectors and inflated services sectors. The absence of a well articulated policy framework led the region to remain underdeveloped. Two paradigms dominated Government of India\'s North-East Policy as a whole. One relates to overstress on security strategic consideration rather than on development efforts in a development perspective. The other relates to the minimum intervention in traditional systems and institutions of the hill economy which is what has led to their non compatibility with the functioning of market system. Since the mid 1990s however uninterrupted disorder and its relation with persistence underdevelopment of the North-East India began to find in the mainstream collective psyche as reflected in growing national level debate deliberations and discourse as well as Pronouncement of special economic packages for the economic development of North-East India. The book attempts to provide a clear cut picture on various perspectives and issues affecting development of rural as well urban industrializations. (jacket)