Author: Uttam Shrestha
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-08-07
Year: 2008
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2008
Examination Committee: Jayant K. Routray (Chairperson); Gopal B. Thapa, Mokbul M. Ahmad (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Nepal is a small mountainous country, naturally divided into three physiographic regions, mountain, hill and tarai. From development and administrative perspective, it is divided into five development regions and 75 districts. The overall development situation of Nepal is gradually improving. However, the pattern and intensity of the development is found location biased. Selected pocket areas of hill and tarai districts are growing faster than others so the regional disparity is widening in many aspects of development. The study aimed to identify and analyze the situation of regional disparity among the districts in 1991, 2001 and 2005. It also aimed to identify the contributing factors of regional disparity. Agriculture and allied, Infrastructure and manufacturing, Socio economic, and Human development sectors are the four major sectors selected for the analysis. Within these four broad sectors, sixteen individual indicators are selected for the year 1991 and 2001 likewise nineteen indicators for 2005. The study is mainly based on the secondary data from different sources. From development point of view, some selected urbanized and industrialized mountain, hill and tarai districts are in favorable condition. Remoteness and inaccessibility of majority of mountain and hill districts, location biased investment pattern of government and private sectors have helped to create variation in level of development among the districts and physiographic regions. Tarai districts are relatively in favorable situation in agriculture and allied and infrastructure and manufacturing sectors because of higher percentage of irrigated area, timely availability of agricultural inputs, easy access to several markets, establishment of agro-processing industries and infrastructure development is better in tarai districts than in majority of hill and mountain districts. Such a way, hill districts are in better position in socio economic and human development sectors because of the access to basic services and facilities and situation o
Scholarship Donor(s): Norway
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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