Why Eastern India Has Been A Real Laggard

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]India has a serious East-West divide.

[00:00:02]The North-South divide is not the serious divide. Just look at a map.

[00:00:04]Southern India has clearly done well since 1991. But Eastern India has a been a real lag out in multiple ways. Bihar's per capita income is only 33% of the national average. It is no longer deteriorating in the last decade or so it has stabilized but at a very low level. And before that it had been continuously declining. So Eastern India clearly has a problem and we need to do something about it.