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Stress the importance of regional development in the context of national planning in India. Can regional disparities be reduced within the framework of a centralist planning?

  • UPSC 1986
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

Indian planning adopted balanced regional development as an objective from the Second Five Year Plan, recognising that national growth can coexist with deepening inter-regional inequality. Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama (1968) and his thesis of circular and cumulative causation explained why: without deliberate counter-measures, "backwash" effects drain capital, skill and enterprise from poor regions to rich…

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  • Why regional development matters to national planning
  • What centralist planning actually achieved
  • Can disparities be reduced within a centralist framework?
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