| The scheme mainly eonsists of two divisions e.g. (a) Study of Economic Resources in regard to their distribution, exploitation and utilisation, (b) their conservation and future scope of develop-ment. These two divisions are again splitted up into four major parts for convenience. The first part (chapter 1-4) deals with the geographical back-ground of Lakhimpur. It includes a brief study of historical evolution as an economic and administrative region,physical features, geological evolution and structure, soil condition, drainage, flood and erossion, climate and demographic features of Lakhimpur. The last chapter of this part shows the effect of natural calamities on the growth and settlement of population, causes of uneven distribution and the present population structures in regard to sex-proportion, working force, occu-pational distribution, participation rate and trend of population growth. Part II (chapter 5-6) deals with the resources. The first-half of the chapter 5 describes the traditional pattern of land use, factors affecting the present land use, percentage, distribution of arable and non-arable land, presence of waste land, recent attempts to put more land under better use and present pressure on land. The second half deals elaborately with Agriculture and agricultural productions. The chapter 6 gives a detail account of resources, their distribution and utilisation. The coservative and destructive approach towards exploitation of the natural resources, impair sustained eco-nomic growth and development of the district. This has been pin-pointed by indicating the major loop-holes and defects of exploitation and conservation. An attempt has been made to reconstruct the past history of use, re-use, mis-use and non-use of the resources and to explore the co-ordinated improvement of this industry. In the last part (chapter 7-9), the distribution of the industries and the transport and communication facilities of the district are dealt with. The industries are classified into four groups according to the use of basic raw materials. The phenomenal but unplanned growth of many industrial units paralysed and rendered them uneconomic and are ultimately closed down. Many of them need renovation and modernisation. The capacity of some of the industries is far in excess of utilisation, while others are over worked. This disparity in the utilisation of the installed capacity of the manufacturing industries lead to many problems and affect the cost of... |
