CONTENTS Preface vii 1. Regional Disparities in Health 1 Deeba Jahangir & Nighat Ahmad 2. Pattern of Inter-Regional Disparities in India: 15 Threats & Challenges S.K. Pant, Firdaus Fatima Rizvi & D.C. Pathak 3. Regional Disparities and Level of 37 Employment in India Mohammad Asif & Jyoti Obia 4. Growing Regional Disparities in 54 Development in India V. Arivazhagan & N. Krishnaveni 5. Infrastructure and Regional Development 68 Disparities in Madhya Pradesh: A Causal Effect Relationship Neeti Srivastava & H.S. Yadav 6. Health Development in Belgaum District 87 M.B. Hiriyakkanavar & Prakash Lamani 7. Industrial Disparities in Karnataka: 109 A Micro Level Study of Davangere District Tayanna H., Suresh R. Rathod & Sanjeev Kumar Pote 8. Inter-Regional Disparity in Maharshtra: 123 Problems and Policies Nalini Ambare 9. Infertility: A Socio-Psychological Analysis: 138 A Case Study of Gulbarga District Maitradevi Halemani & Basalingamma Halemani 10. Issues & Policies of Inter-Regional 160 Disparities in India S.K. Dhage & B.C. Lobo 11. Regional Variations in Fiscal Imbalances and 170 Growth: Experiences of Indian States Mona Khare, Anjali Jain & Roopali Shevalkar 12. Inter-Regional Disparities in India 185 Prashant Bhardwaj 13. Socio-Economic Status of Scheduled Caste 196 College Students - A Case Study Chandrashekhar & Akash. S.B 14. Ethnic Unrest and Economic Disparities in 209 North East India (N.E.) A. Hussain 15. OBC Reservation in Higher Education: 225 Myths & Realities V. Rama Krishna 16. Managing the Indian Knowledge Society 238 S.M. Jawed Akhtar, Md. Imdadul Haque & Md. Shabbir Alam 17. The Eveningers - New Emerging Problems in 253 India and their Rights Basalingamma Halemani & Matiradevi Halemani 18. Land Use, Land Capability and Land Use 261 Problems of a Semi-arid Landscape: A Case Study of Bijapur District B.C. Patil & S.I. Biradar Index 277