Economic development perspectives v.6

India has attained a creditable degree of industrial development within the framework of a predominantly agricultural economy. This has been possible through the successive Industrial Policy Resolutions, development planning through the Five Year Plans, a tight control of economic resources for targeted investment, and a strong Industrial base set up in the Nehru era through key public sector undertakings. India is now among the Industrialised nations of the South and South-East Aslan region and Its vast manpower resources hold out the promise of industrial development through the absorption of glabally advanced technologies.
The authors of this present com pilation of papers, articles, reviews and abstracts, have examined, each In their own special fields, the pros and cons of industrialisation in India and the economic policy Imperatives as the prerequisites. The subjects range from a review of the progress In the eighties and looking beyond, the significance of the small-scale sector in Industrial development, rural industrialisation, technology adaptation and financial policy and management in the overall context.
In its collective effect, the present publication constitutes a valuable basic approach to the study of industrialisation in India. It will be of Immense use to not only students and teachers of the economics of industrialisation and economic development, but also to the managers, technocrats and Industrialists who have made the modernisation of India a reality.