Prospect of Economic Development of Assam: An Analysis

Abstract

The scope for and the nature of economic development of a particular area, irrespective of its development potentialities in terms of resource availability, is limited by its spatial location within the political geography of a country in addition to its own physiography. It is believed that the nearer a place to the market centre, the greater is its scope for development, the further a place, the remoter is its scope. The North-Eastern Region comprising seven states - Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura has a total geographical area of 2.5 lakh sq.km. and inhabited by a population of about 31.5 million. The economic structure of North-east India is similar to the general economic structure of India but the fact to be mentioned here is that it differs from the rest of India only in kind and not in degree. North-East India has a relatively backward economy due to its physical geography as well as the present political and social conditions prevailing in the region. The present paper will study the Prospect of Economic Development of Assam.