Extracts from Report on General Issues Relating to Backward Areas Development (Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi, November 1981)

National Committee on the Development of Backward Areas

* Chapter 2:Past Approaches to the Problems of Backwardness.

* Chapter 4:Concept of Backwardness.

* Chapter 5:Criteria and Strategy for Backward Area Development.

* Chapter 6:Industrial Development of Backward Areas.

* Chapter 9:Growth Centre as the Catalyst of Area Development.