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that the special needs of the less developed areas should receive due attention.
The pattern of investment must be so devised as to lead to balanced regional
development’. The Second and Third Plans mentioned the necessity to locate basic
industries in the less-developed areas, subject, of course, to technical and economic
limitations, as means to achieving regional development.
Identification of Industrially Backward Areas
In 1968, the National Development Council (NDC) considered the problem of
industrial backwardness among states and recommended the following five
cities for the purpose of identification of industrially ...