Abstract:
Industrial Infrastructure in India has been greatly fortified by the policies and grants of the
local and central government as well as international investors. The sectors which have the
utmost need for the development of Industrial Infrastructure are namely engineering,
construction, health, textile, skill-development and others. The government has been
formulating strong development policies and promising grants that promote growth in
- infrastructure projects for the upliftment of living conditions of the people and their well
being. (Compare Infobase Limited, 2012)
The practice of industrial development in pre-independent India can be recognised as huge
consolidation of industries in culled regions. Eventually, better planning initiatives in this
sector accelerated the pace of industrial development and the pattern of development was
broadened. However, the problem of industrial consolidation at selected regions far from
being resolved was actually exasperated with the passage of time.
But gradually the Central along with State Governments interposed in this process by
recognising the industrially backward areas all over and granting them incentives and
develop physical infrastructure in the industrially backward regions of the nation. Also,
through central fiscal grants and incentivized policy formulations, the government tries to
attract the investors to invest in industrially backward regions. But it is highly inquistive
- whether this approach of interposing through policy formulation sustainable. (Planning
Commission, Government of India, 2012)
Uttarakhand came into existence as the 27th state of India in the year 2000. Ambitions and
hopes for accelerated development underlay the movement for establishment of the new
state.
