Infrastructure For Sustainable Rural Development

Efficient rural infrastructure is essential for accelerating the pace of rural development. No doubt, imbalances in rural infrastructural availability have been a major reason behind lopsided development in rural India. This book evaluates the veracity of this arguments in the context of Indian States. The book provides nature, pattern and magnitude of inter-state disparities in rural infrastrcture and rural development It also analyses inter-district disparities in rural iinfrastructure facilities and rural development in Himachal Pradesh using a multidimensional approach with subsectoral, sectoral and composite indices of rural development and infrastructural avaibility. The empirical evidence of rural infrastructure development in Himachal Pradesh is enormously vital for comparable Indian States. An appropriate Strategy is considered necessary for the creationof effectual rural infrastructural base in the rural areas so as to accomplish the ambition of sustainable rural development in India. It is hoped that this book will be of direct interest and use to academics, development planners and policy makers.