North-East India - Emerging Issues of Development

North-Eastern region is economically at subsistence level, one of the lowest levels of capital formation due to lack of industrial and agricultural development and low level of resource utilization. The geographical constraints, bad communication network, limited cultivable land, poor irrigation facilities, traditional low productive jhum cultivation, lack of infrastructure are some of the major causes of economic backwardness of the region. In this perspective, the present volume attempts to examine various aspects of development in the region. Taking a close look at the issues, the contributors discuss at length the geography, development and spatial inequality, loss of forest cover and deforestation, look east policy, women participation on SHG-bank linkage programme, microfinance and women empowerment and education, agricultural and health infrastructure, material well-being, rural development and education, educational institutes and their influence on the socio-economic development of the surrounding rural areas with special focus on Assam and Mizoram.