Question

what are the causes of regional inequality In India​

Answer 1

Answer:

⚛️Historical Factor:

Historically, regional imbalances in India started from its British regime. The British rulers as well as industrialists started to develop only those earmarked regions of the country which as per their own interest were possessing rich potential for prosperous manufacturing and trading activities.

Geographical factors:

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Geographical factors play an important role in the developmental activities of a developing economy. The difficult terrain surrounded by hills, rivers and dense forests leads to increase in the cost of administration, cost of developmental projects, besides making mobilisation of resources particularly difficult.

Most of the Himalayan states of India, i.e., Himachal Pradesh, Northern Kashmir, the hill districts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh and other North-Eastern states, remained mostly backward due to its inaccessibility and other inherent difficulties.

⚛️Locational advantage:

Locational advantages are playing an important role in determining the development strategy of a region. Due to some locational advantages, some regions are getting special favour in respect of site selections of various developmental projects.

⚛️Inadequacy of Economic Overheads:

Economic overheads like transport and communication facilities, power, technology, banking and insurance etc. are considered very important for the development of a particular region.

⚛️Failure of Planning Mechanism:

Although balanced growth has been accepted as one of the major objectives of economic planning in India, since the Second Plan onwards but it did not make much headway in achieving this object. Rather, in real sense, planning mechanisms has enlarged the disparity between the developed states and less developed states of the country.

⚛️Lack of Growth of Ancillary Industries in Backward States:

The Government of India has been following a decentralised approach for the development of backward regions through its investment programmes on public sector industrial enterprises located in backward areas like Rourkela, Barauni, Bhilai, Bongaigaon etc. But due to lack of growth of ancillary industries in these areas, all these areas remained backward in spite of huge investment made by the Centre.

⚛️Political Instability:

Another important factor responsible for regional imbalance is the political instability prevailing in the backward regions of the country. Political instability in the form of unstable government, extremist violence, law and order problem etc. have been obstructing the flow of investments into these backward regions besides making flight of capital from these backward states.

⚛️Lack of Motivation on the part of Backward States:

Growing regional imbalance in India has also been resulted from lack of motivation on the part of the backward states for industrial development.

Answer 2

$Question$ :-

➝what are the causes of regional inequality In India?

$Answer$ :-

Inequality refers to the difference in treatment it can be due to various reasons.

• Caste Distinction:- Our society was divided into different vernas ,where a large number of people have been treated and justly and were deprived of education and economic progress.

• Racial Differences :- Inquality is sometimes caused by a racial differences for a long time there was a racial difference between the white and black in the United States.

• Gender Disparity:- women in many countries of the world are discriminated on the basis of health and economic issues.