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Reduction in regional disparities has been one of the priority goals of national planning in India. How the proposed new Smart urban centres may contribute to the process?

  • UPSC 2015
  • Settlements

India's space economy is a core-periphery structure in John Friedmann's sense — a western and southern coastal-industrial core commanding investment and decision-making, against an eastern and central periphery supplying labour and raw material.

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  • The disparity national planning has been aimed at
  • The mechanism by which any new centre acts on its region
  • How new smart urban centres may contribute
  • Why the mechanism may run the other way
  • Judgement: an instrument of siting, not of technology

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