Economic Liberalisation and rigional disparities in India / Baidyanath Misra | Rajkishor Meher

1. New economic policy and balanced development;
2. Inter-state disparities in levels of development and the implications of economic liberalisation on regional economics of India;
3. Inter-state variations in statutory transfers: An evaluation of horizontal equity dimension of finance commissions award;
4. The impact of economic liberalisation on sustainability of food grains production in India: Some emerging issues in the context of regional perspectives;
5. Food security system and structural adjustment policies in India;
6. Structural reforms and regional disparities;
7. Economic liberalisation and regional imbalance: A study in terms of industrial growth, poverty and unemployment;
8. Research and development thrusts in Indian agriculture in the Wake of globalisation;
9. Possible impact of new economic policy on agriculture credit farm investment and productivity;
10. Financial liberalisation and regional balance: role of commercial banks in promoting regional development in old versus new districts of Orissa.
11. Economic Liberalisation and regional disparities in India;
12. Regional disparities in India.

Reversing its state centred model of planned development the Government of India has introduced new economic policy (NEP) measures since 1990, where primacy of the market in regulating the course of economic development is given more importance with a view to globalising the Indian economy. It is needles to mention that one of the main objectives of planning in India is to attain an egalitarian socio-economic order with balanced development of regions . So, although from the angles of resource efficiency, market competitiveness and high economic growth, the liberalised economic policy may be helpful for the country, it is quite likely that the NEP will go in favour of the richer states and richer regions of the country. The social and economic disparities between place and people may widen further. In this scenario, if appropriate steps are not being taken to implement economic reforms with a human face, a pluralistic society like India may encounter the problems of regional dissension and fissiparous tendency in the future. It is in this context a national seminar was being organized by Nabakrusha Choudhury Centre fordevelopment studies, orissa Bhunaneswar in october, 1996 with moderate financial support received from the Indian council of social science research, New Delhi. The present volume is an outcome of the revised version of the papers presented in the seminar as well as the fresh ones contributed by the centre's faculty. In this book the authors comprising experts, academicians , social activists, scholars and administrators present their view points on logic of economic liberalisation, market reforms, level of development of the regional economies, effects of liberalisation on different sectors and subsectors of the Indian economy and its future fall out at the regional level.
The book is just a part of the unending debates and discussions relating to controversial economic reform measures introduced by the government in the grab of liberalisation and globalisation of the Indian economy to achieve rapid socio-economic transformations. This volume is merely a moderate effort of the researchers and policy makers of the poor and backward atste like Orissa to generate further debates and discussion on the present course of economic development.