ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING IN INDIA

  SYLLABUS:  Unit-4. Public sector in India and its role in the small scale and cottage industries and government's policy with respect to these, Problem of industrial sickness. External sector role of foreign aid, Impact of liberalization, particularly since 1991 on Indian economy.

  SYLLABUS: Unit-3.  Agriculture role of agriculture in India's economic development, Factors influencing productivity in agriculture- Institutional factors, technological factors. Prices and availability of finance. Industry: the role and pattern of industrial growth, trends since 1950, industrial policy with special emphasis of on new industrial Policy 1991.

  SYLLABUS Unit-2.  Capital accumulation as a factor in economic growth, role of education in economic development, Population and economic development (the two-way relationship), Aspect of human development: education, Poverty and inequality of income distribution (With special reference to India), changes in the sectoral distribution of national income, per capita income and labour force since independence.

  SYLLABUS:  Unit-1. Economic Development: concept and general perspective, common characteristics of Underdevelopment, India as a developing economy and its international standing. Strategies of development balanced vs, unbalanced growth strategy, wage goods strategy, basic-needs strategy