Road Infrastructure in Economically Underdeveloped North-east India

S.N. Nandy

Journal of Infrastructure Development, 2014, vol. 6, issue 2, 131-144

Abstract: Infrastructure development builds the road map for economic growth and social upliftment of a county. Econometric studies indicate a direct relationship between development of physical infrastructure and economic growth. Road infrastructure, in particular, provides a network to facilitate trade, transport, social integration and economic development, especially for an underdeveloped region. The present article is an effort to study the road infrastructure of India’s north-east (NE) region, which is one of the underdeveloped regions of the country. The growth of infrastructure in NE, both social and physical, has not kept pace with the rest of the country, leading to widening of disparities. The overall economic situation of NE has been presented in the article. Comparative state-wise analyses of road length, type, category and quality of available roads have been carried out. The dispersion of road density in terms of per thousand population and also per thousand square kilometre of area has been mapped across the NE districts. Geographic information system tool has been used to map the attributes, such as, district-wise road length and percentage of surfaced road available in each district. The study reveals that there exist significant variations among states as well as within different districts of a state. Although these analyses are based on the secondary data set, they make an attempt to map the level of inter-state and intra-state disparity in the region.

Keywords: Road network; road density; transport infrastructure; inter-district SD; North-east India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O R (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0974930614564648

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