Human Development and Deprivation in Meghalaya

This book is an in-depth study on human development and deprivation in Meghalaya. Specialty of the book lies in filling the gap through construction of human development indices at the districts level for the state of Meghalaya for the year 2005-06 based on, among other things, collected primary data when Planning Commission of India has made no such attempt for the state including other small states in India after 1991. It has analyzed the status and trend of human development and deprivation in Meghalaya vis-a-vis other leading states in the country. It has also thrown light on the extent of unevenness of human development between rural and urban areas, across different districts and also between genders in the state. The book will be of immense value to the policy makers, planners, researchers, academicians, students of development (economics and genera) readers. It will serve as a base as well as a reference book on Meghalaya and encourage future researchers for further intellectual exercises on the same line.