An Inter-Industrial Programming Model for Production and Transportation of Commodities for Different Regions of India

This paper is in the nature of an exploratory study into the optimal pattern of regional production and exchange of commodities in India. The process of economic development for India as a whole has raised urgent problems of the kind of dispersion that should he made of industries in order that the different regions may have satisfactory rates of growth without loss of efficiency, while the operation of the industries as a whole may also be efficient both as regards production and transportation. This is important especially in India in view of the fact that a large part of total industrial investment in India is in the public sector and is, therefore, guided according to notions of national welfare, in so far as is consistent with certain norms of efficiency.