Essay On Industrialization

1. Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

Industrialization is widely used after the European Industrial Revolution of 18th century where individual labor was replaced by mechanized mass production and craftsmen by assembly line. Onset of Industrial Revolution has lead to the difference in the living standards. It is partly for this reason that industrialization has been targeted as the route to economic growth in many countries.

Industrialization has been emphasized as the major thrust area for economic development. Industries has been envisaged as not only the harbinger of economic growth, but they are also been viewed as a means to reduce regional disparity.

The thrust of the Gujarat Industrial Development Corporations has been to plan and implement industrial estates in backward regions to achieve economic and social development. The underlying assumption has been that the industrial development would be followed by not only provision of physical infrastructure, but also social infrastructure gradually, which would lead to improvement in quality of life.

With the liberalization of state policy, there is a radical change in the approach of the state towards industries. Industrialists are being sought after by the state functionaries to get investment in their regions.

World over, the cities compete for investment and it is equally true back in India between ambitious state governments. They often used tool for this is the tax incentives. The newly formed states, with high aspirations for industrial development, see them as highway of success.

However, despite giving attractive incentives, very few areas really develop industrially. The incentives are given all over the places but they are effective in only some areas; while t...

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...Small, Medium Industries

2) Large scale Industries.

Kachchh is a growing economic and industrial hub in one of India's fastest growing states - Gujarat. Kachchh District comes under special Incentive region, after the 2001Earthquake Govt. Of Gujarat introduce this Incentive Policy to boost the Industrial Development of District, after this incentive Policy huge investment is done by private industrialist. So, from data analysis, understand the industrialized growth of Kachchh district.

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In third stage, for analysis of urbanization few urbanization indicators selected.

These Indicators are used to measure the urbanization of the districts. The change in these indicators over a time has been identified the urbanization growth in taluka of Kachchh district which are most industrialised.

The selected urbanization indicators are:

Table 1: Urbanisation Indicator