Industrial development in a backward region: dynamics of policy

Industrialisation is neither 'poetry' nor a 'number game'. It is deeply rooted in the hard realities of the prevailing situation. The volume explores, how a potentially rich region remains industrially backward over decades largely due to unimaginative approach and faulty policies and programmes.
Catchy slognas like, 'one thousand industries in one thousand days with the investment of one thousand crores of rupees' do not put a region firmly on the path of industrialisation. It only results in the proliferation of industrial units-large, medium and small, most of which emerge congenitally sick' The author explores the reasons by marshalling large amounts of data.

The volume emphasises that industrial growth is never an autonomous process, independent of the general forces of economic development of a backward region. The dynamics needed for industrialisation of at backward region are highlighted with emphasis on policy and institutional changes.
The volume will be useful to academics, policy makers and planners.