Industrialisation of hill states in India

Rapid industrialisation and balanced regional development have all along been important objectives of national policy for industrialisation. Till independence most of the industrial efforts remain limited to the few port cities of the country. However, since independence onwards number of steps have been initiated for taking industrialisation to the most backward parts of the country. The job becomes more tedious in case of hilly areas. Particularly after seventies, when the ecological considerations have been recieving more and more attention which has further complicated the matter of industrialisation of these parts.
Further, whatever, the efforts have been taken in this direction have yielded negligible impact on the prevailing socio-economic structures of hill states. Because of the faulty selection of industries, backward and forward linkages are generally missing. The faulty location of industrial sites in these regions have benifitted more to the already industrially developed states through many ways. Therefore, without overcoming existing structural constraints it will not be possible to make major breakthrough in the field of industrialisation. Further it calls for a strategy which should be based on the principle of specialisation with a multidisciplinary approach for the transformation of these economies.
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