Economic Development and Demographic Changes in the Economy of Himachal Pradesh from 1980-81 to 2010-11

Development has been appropriately conceptualized as a process, which improves the quality of life of people. Economic planning has been used in the country as an instrument for bringing about uniform regional development because one of the main objectives of the developmental programmes has been a progressive reduction in regional disparities in the pace of development. The main objective of the paper is to study the Economic development and demographic changes in the economy of Himachal Pradesh. PCA and Coefficient of Variance methods has been used in the study. To classify the districts according to the category of economic development and demographic changes from 1980-81 to 2010-11 in the Economy of Himachal Pradesh. This paper is based on secondary data. The required data have been collected entirely from secondary sources. The analysis of economic development and demographic changes shows that Lahaul & Spiti and Kinnaur were very highly developed in the level of economic development and in the demographic changes. Three districts namely Lahaul & Spiti, Chamba and Hamirpur were very highly developed. In the economic development three districts namely Bilaspur, Solan, Hamirpur were situated in the category of highly developed and only one district Kinnaur positioned in the level of demographic changes. In 2010-11 two districts Lahaul & Spiti and Solan were very highly developed in economic developed and three districts Kinnaur, Lahaul & Spiti and Chamba were very high developed in the demographic changes. In the highly developed category four districts namely Kinnaur, Bilaspur, Hamirpur and Chamba were highly developed in economic development, whereas, three districts namely Hamirpur, Bilaspur, and Kullu were in the same category in the demographic changes.


Introduction
Development has been appropriately conceptualized as a process, which improves the quality of life of people. Economic planning has been used in the country as an instrument for bringing about uniform regional development because one of the main objectives of the developmental programmes has been a progressive reduction in regional disparities in the pace of development. Programmes  overall total production, but there is no indication that these achievements have been able to reduce substantially the regional inequalities in the level of development. Although resource transfers are being executed in backward regions of the country, it has been observed that the regional disparities in terms of socio-economic development are not declining over time.
One cannot undermine the importance of the catalytic role that Socio-Economic development plays an important role in the economic development. The function of Socio-Economic development is to release latent productivity in the factors of production singly and in coordination and bring about not only an increase in the output of individual factors and units of production but also a mutually additive effect through coordination in inputs, outputs, space, time and thus maximize the overall rate of economic growth.
The growth of population is an important demographic characteristic which not only helps in understanding the population change that a society has undergone, but also helps in predicting the future demographic characteristics of an area. Therefore, it is useful to study and analyze the pattern of population growth in Himachal Pradesh. The term growth of population is generally used to refer the change in the number of inhabitants of a territory during a specific period of time, irrespective of whether the change is negative or positive. Population growth may be measured both in absolute terms and in percentage form. Population growth is the product of a combined operation of the three population process viz. the fertility, mortality and migration. These three factors are also called the components of population dynamics because these three factors, which bring about dynamism in population numbers by not letting them, remain static.

Objective of the Study
The present study Economic Development and demographic changes in Himachal Pradesh between 1980-81 to 2010-11 has been undertaken to achieve the following objectives: • to study the trends and pattern of economic development and demographic changes in the economy of Himachal Pradesh; • to classify the districts according to the category of Economic development and demographic changes from 1980-81 to 2010-11 in the Economy of Himachal Pradesh.

Source of Data
The required data have been collected entirely from secondary sources. Data related to the main sectors of Himachal Pradesh socio-economy have been collected from respective departments of government

Methodology
The most crucial task was to analyze the patterns of Economic development and demographic changes at the district level, where multi-area unit analysis has been used. For this purpose, construction of composite index of development was felt imperative for the analysis of the study. Further, in order to examine the inter-district disparities in the Socio-Economic development some simple statistical tools such as coefficient of range, coefficient of variation etc., were also used. The methods which have been generally used for construction of composite index of development by pooling several indicators are those of indexing, ranking and Principal Component Analysis (including Factor Analysis).

Analysis
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Conclusion
The analysis of economic development and demographic changes shows that Lahaul & Spiti and Kinnaur were very highly developed in the level of economic development and in the demographic changes. Three districts namely Lahaul & Spiti, Chamba and Hamirpur were very highly developed.
In the economic development three districts namely Bilaspur, Solan, Hamirpur were situated in the category of highly developed and only one district Kinnaur positioned in the level of demographic changes. 3 0 In 2010-11 two districts Lahaul & Spiti and Solan were very highly developed in economic developed and three districts Kinnaur, Lahaul & Spiti and Chamba were very high developed in the demographic changes.
In the highly developed category four districts namely Kinnaur, Bilaspur, Hamirpur and Chamba were highly developed in economic development, whereas, three districts namely Hamirpur, Bilaspur, and Kullu were in the same category in the demographic changes. The main reason of these highly developed districts are that they produce the commercial crops.