Industrial Estates in India

Industrial Estates as a means of balanced development occupy a prominent position in Indian planning. They have been claimed as an important device for fostering small industrial enterprises. I had as opportunity to study effectiveness of the industrial estates in Mysore State and I found that they have not been a great success. They have not achieved many of the objectives for which they were intended, namely creating new small enterprises, industrial devdopment of backward areas, rural industrialization, decentralization of industrial development, etc. Such an evaluation is not too early.