REGIONAL DISPARITIES AND INDIAN STATES: A MACRO LEVEL STUDY

Abstract

The Indian economy seems to have entered into a higher growth trajectory with an unprecedented average growth rate of 8.7 per cent in gross domestic product and one of the fastest growing economies in the world it is also one of the most unequal country. The main objective of this present paper is to examine the disparities at the macro level in terms of NSDP, Per capita income, HD, work participation rate, and wages in six different regions of India from 1991 to 2018. The present study is based on secondary data. The secondary data for the study were collected from various published reports of government organizations. The records of the handbook of statistics on Indian states published by RBI and National Human Development reported - 2018 on UNDP. These records highlight the region's inequality including per capita income, NSDP, and Human Development Index in India. The data, thus, generated were analyzed through average and rank wise classified the regions with the help of the Gini Coefficient. The data were 1991 to 2018 for the first five years (1991-1995) merged by complete data. He was analyzed the NSSO reported on various years of publication in 61st round to 68th round India. 1991-2018 is divided by the six parts data. The study is based on the administrative division of India. The study comes across that the Gini Coefficient for regional per capita income of India indicated there is more inequality, which is 0.75 per cent throughout 1990-91 to 2017-18. The study finds that the NSDP growth rate of first place at 18.6 per cent increase the growth rate in southern regions because Tamil Nadu is the most industrial based State. The southern state is leading the chart of the most industrialized states with at least 37,378 factories till 2013-2014. There are increasing the number of factories were just 14,617 after 1990-91. The industry has grown with a rate of more than 2.5 times for 25 years. Against that last place of growth rate the 9.1 per cent in Northeast regions.