Uneven Economic and Human Development in India : Selected Regional Perspectives Book

Contents: Introduction/Kanak Kanti Bagchi. Our contributors. 1. Agricultural development in Punjab — an inter-district analysis/Parminder Kaur and Arjinder Kaur. 2. Regional variations in agricultural development of Rajasthan/Pradip Kumar Punjabi and Ram Singh Rathor. 3. State variations in food security of India/R.S. Gadage. 4. Regional development and locational dynamics in Andhra Pradesh/K. Madhu Babu. 5. Education, economic growth and economic development of India/Himanshu Desai, Manish Thaker and Parul I. Patel. 6. Educational disparities: a case study of Punjab/Vipla Chopra. 7. Regional disparities in development of education: a case study of Belgaum district of Karnataka state/Prakash Lamani and M.B. Hiriyakkanavar. 8. Human development in India: an interstate analysis/Minati Mallick and Jagannath Lenka. 9. Education, health and human development in West Bengal: an inter-regional analysis/Ratul Saha and Sujit Majumdar. 10. Regional deviation in the progress of urban cooperative banking in India/Rajendra Dhanappa Jeur. 11. Inter-state disparities in banking operations in India: a study of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand/Nisar Ahmad Khan. 12. Micro credit scenario in India — a regional perspective/Vipla Chopra.

The book deals with different dimensions of relative levels of regional development and underdevelopment among and within Indian states. It contains 12 chapters dealing with overall disparities in development and in some specific aspects like agriculture, industry, social and financial sector. Contributors have deeply derived into the state, causes and solutions to problems of regional inequalities and unbalanced growth. The remedies suggested by the scholars may help the policy makers to take appropriate remedial measures to remove the imbalances and inequalities in social and economic development and ensure a speedy overall growth of the regional economies of India.