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Regional Disparity in India
Regional disparities in economic development are one of the common features found in all over
the world today.
Regional disparity denotes regional imbalances or regional dualism or growth differentiation.
The coexistence of relatively developed and economically depressed states and even regions with
in each state known as a regional imbalance. The development process nowadays generally
concentrate around the few main territories of a nation and others do not receive the benefits of
such development due to factors like market imperfection, geographical constraints, false
government policies, lack of law and order and other social, political and economic reasons. (1)
The prevalence of regional disparities is a common phenomenon and is present both in
developed and developing countries. Even the richest country of the world- USA has the
problem of imbalanced regional development and many small countries (such as Italy & France)
and socialist countries (such as Russia and China) are also facing this problem. Different regions
of a country grow at very unequal rates, resulting inter-regional and intra-regional disparities
which in turn give socio economic problems. (2) In India, regional disparities exist from the
British time period. The British rulers as well as industrialists started to develop only those
embarked regions of the country
