DPEP - Madhya Pradesh State-Plan 1997-2002

Abstract

Territorially the biggest state & topographically endowed with a complex character with large tracts of low density population, M.P. has to reckon with a comparatively higher cost of development of physical infra structures. The MP Human Development Report brought out by the Govt, of M.P. in 1995 reports. “Infrastructure for various development needs have been in a poor condition in the state. The large land mass and relatively sparse population, sometimes found in concentration such as in Indore and Bhopal, and sometimes in sparsely populated and far spread regions such as in Chattisgarh, has made it very difficult for the state to effectively and efficiently spread an infrastructure network in the state. Even historically, at the time the state came into its existence as Madhya Pradesh in 1956, the state inherited a poor infrastructure. For a large state such as Madhya Pradesh, Communications and transport are critical to access regions, to carry delivery of services and facilities to people and to give access to service and facilities to people and to give access to services and facilities to people.