Globalization led development: An Indian perspective

Pages: 323-326
Iftekhar Ahmed Ansari (Department of Political Science, N.R.E.C College, Ch. Charan Singh University, Khurja, Bulandshahar, U. P.)

The term Globalization precedes the word development in Indian national narrative by almost a decade. Globalization is horizontal mobility of man and material resources culminating in the vertical development in the human graph of well being- marked by economic progress and rise in human development index. The globalization led development in as diversified a country as India has a variegated success story. It has got its’ brighter spots as well as darker shades. On one side whereas it raises the standard of living of people in general, On the other hand it remains restricted to a few pockets of region and to a fewer number of people. The majority of people are pushed to margins, and those already at the margins are discriminated, uprooted, dislocated and force to become refuges in their own country. The present paper tries to delineate environmental, social and economy related developmental issues that have plagued the Indian poeple for quite some time.