'The Economic Development of Cachar District During 1951-74' by Dr. Saurindra Kr. Bhattacharjee

KOLKATA, India - May 19, 2014 - PRLog -- The life of Dr. Saurindra Kumar Bhattacharjee, M.Com, Ph.D. has been a long eventful journey. He is an academician on the one hand and a social and cultural activist, a cultural performer and also an educational administrator on the other. He started his teaching career as a Lecturer in Commerce in the year 1966 at Cachar College, Silchar and retired from the same institution as HOD Commerce in the year 2002. A founder teacher of Assam University, Silchar, Dr. Bhattacharjee was awarded Ph.D. Degree by the Gauhati University in the year 1981 for his thesis entitled, “The Economic Development of Cachar District during 1951-1974". His Ph.D. thesis, which is being published, is considered as an evidential document of the socio-economic backwardness of this valley.

An attempt has been made in this Book to investigate into the various facets of socio-economic development of Cachar, a backward district in Assam, during the period 1951-1974. The investigation deals mainly with the economic development of the district in relation to changes in the structure of output and allocation of inputs in the various sectors of the economy as well as with the growth problems.

In the context of the developmental planning, the importance of such a study hardly needs be overemphasized to provide effective tools in the hands of planners at the district and the State level. The aim of the investigation is to make an assessment of the economic growth of the district, while the spotlight has been focused on the existing potentialities of the district for enhancing the productive capacity with a view to removing the economic backwardness of this border district. As the study seeks to highlight the economic conditions of the district designed to be transformed and uplifted during the plan periods, it has been entitled "THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CACHAR DISTRICT DURING 1951-1974". It has been the endeavor of the author to deal with the practical aspects of the process of developmental planning by pinpointing the weaknesses, as well as the multifarious problems faced by the economy of the district during the period under study. All throughout the study the discussion has been made against the background of Assam with due stress on the far-reaching effects of the Partition of India, wherever necessary. The searching analysis shows that the private sector holds the key to economic growth while the public sector is yet to make its due impact on the economy of the district.

In the Epilogue, after making a summary of conclusions, various suggestions have been offered to counteract the problems faced by the various sectors with a view to accelerating the tempo of economic development of the district, against the background of Assam.

Book :   The Economic Development of Cachar District During 1951-74

Author  :   Dr.Saurindra Kr.Bhattacharjee

ISBN  :  978-93-83809-67-7

Price :  Rs.450.00

Website: www.skbhattacharjee.org

Publishing Date: May 2014

Publisher: Power Publishers

Language: English