Purpose: The study attempts to assess the socio-economic development in Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) of Assam in North Eastern Region of India. This region is one of the most underdeveloped areas in India. The study also examines whether demographic and social characteristics in...

This paper analyses the status of and constraints to industrialization in Arunachal Pradesh. Industrial development has a lot to do with healthy entrepreneurship development. It is in this field that Arunachal finds the greatest constraints to industrial development. Dearth of genuine...

This study undertakes an impact assessment of SHGs formed under the SGSY programme in Meghalaya. It brings out the importance of SHGs as an effective credit delivery mechanism and shows that membership of SHGs has empowered the members (women) and their households both economically and socially....

The study of the state of infrastructure in Meghalaya clearly reflects the poor status of the economic infrastructure. While the infrastructure of the states in the northeast, is generally poor compared to the rest of the country, that of Meghalaya is much worse compared to some of its...

In a state like Arunachal Pradesh the prime objective of the energy resource management strategy should be to achieve sustained self-sufficiency and cost effectiveness in energy consumption, and to promote rapid sustainable economic development. In the context of these lwin objectives, the...

Lack of adequate infrastructure is often cited as one of the main impediments in the development of the northeast of India. The aim of this paper is to assess the development that has taken place in the provision of key economic infrastructures in the region from 1981 to early 2000, and to...