TRENDS, OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES IN SMALL SCALE AND COTTAGE INDUSTRIES IN UTTAR PRADESH

The most important factor for economic development of a country is its industrialization. In the process of industrialization, emphasis is given to the three major groups of industries; large-scale industries, small-scale industries and cottage industries. We propose to study in this paper the problems and prospects of small-scale and cottage industries in Uttar Pradesh, where large and medium scale industries are completely absent and whose development is vitally linked with various programmes and policies designed to remove poverty, unemployment and backwardness of the rural people.