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  • Komol Singha

    • Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India
    • India

Abstract

The importance of physical infrastructure in economic development, trade, employment and in reducing disparity within the country/region has been acknowledged by many scholars. With the help of Composite Development Index of infrastructure, the present study explored that the volume of infrastructure is more important than the level of inter and intra-state disparity. India’s North Eastern Region, identified as most backward region in the country, requires more physical infrastructure, especially the road and communication. Further noticed the relative variations of different indicators were same for almost all states. Those indicators having high coefficient of variation (CV) values are high for almost all the states and vice versa.

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Singha, K. (2011). Infrastructure and Regional Disparity A Case Of North Eastern Region of India. Journal of Social and Development Sciences, 2(4), 162-180. https://doi.org/10.22610/jsds.v2i4.666

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Vol. 2 No. 4 (2011) Infrastructure, Migration & Research for Development View issue contents

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2011-10-15

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