Research Projects

Development is a multidimensional phenomenon. socio-economic development of any state, primarily rests on the assumption of reduction of inequalities in terms of income, social status and growth potential. some of its major dimensions include: the level of agricultural growth, economic growth, education, health services, housing quality and access to communication and transportation. Technology absorption in agriculture and industry are the principal sectors of the economy that are considered as the primary objective of any economic development. Developmental programmes are implemented in the states in planned way to bring out uniform regional development with the main objective of enhancing the quality of life of people by providing basic necessities as well improvement in economic well being. Although resources transfer are being executed in the low developed regions through number of instruments like subsidies and other central assistance but it has been observed that the regional disparities in terms of socio-economic development have not declined over time. Realizing the importance and seriousness of the problems of estimation of development, the present study will deal with the evaluation of comparative inter-state inequalities related to agricultural sector, economic sector, education sector, health sector and socio-economic development by constructing composite indices of development. The states will be classified into high (H), high middle (HM), low middle (LM) and low (L) levels of development. On the basis of levels of development, model states will be identified for fixing up the potential targets of different indicators for least developed states. An attempt was also made to identify certain important factors responsible for least developed states in comparison to highly developed states using Factor analysis technique.