Dimensions of regional disparities in socio-economic development of Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

The level of development of various districts of Madhya Pradesh was estimated with the help of composite index based on optimum combination of socio-economic indicators. All the forty five districts of the State have been inlcluded in the study. The data for the year 1994-95 on forty seven socio-economic indicators have been used. The level of development was separately estimated for agricultural, industrial, infrastructural and socia.economic fields. Out of forty seven indicators included in the study, twenty three indicators are directly connected with agricultural development, six indicators depict the progress of development in industrial sector and the rest eighteen indicators present the level of development in infrastructural service sector. For bringing about uniform regional development, model districts have been identified and potential targets for various indicators have estimated for low developed districts. These districts require improvement various dimensions in most of the indicators for enhancing the level of over all socio-economic development.