Regional Variations in Social Development and Levels of Living - A Study of the Impact of Plan Programmes Volume I

Abstract

From Synopsis: Balanced regional development is one of the important objectives of the Five-Year Plans. Besides presenting data on the various aspects of social and economic development at the regional and State levels, the report analyses; through a set of indicators of development, the regional variations prevailing within the respective States. The report broadly covers eight different fields of measurement of social; and economic conditions namely agriculture, education, health, roads, consumption, employment and unemployment, land holdings, and rural investment and debt. It also throws light on the nature of changes which have taken place over the Plan periods, in the inter-state and inter-regional variations of several indicators of development.