• Jayashree Bordoloi

Adequate infrastructural support is a pre-requisite for accelerated economic development of a country. In simple terms, infrastructure is an umbrella for many activities referred to as ‘social overhead capital’ by such development Economists like Paul Rosenstein Rodan, Ragnar Nurkse, and Albert Hirschman. Rural infrastructure is a powerful tool in strengthening the foundation of agriculture which is a pace setter for the economic growth. Poor physical infrastructure in Assam has acted as roadblocks thwarting the socio-economic development thus increasing the sense of insanity that has led to the other social issues. Inclusive growth or development is one of the key factors that every state or a country as the main objective of development encompasses. But even after decades of Govt intervention in form of development planning, Assam still has gaps not only in physical infrastructure but also in creating adequate social infrastructure. In the present paper, an investigation has been made to analyze the level of development of various agriculture infrastructural indicators in Assam to understand the disparity and compare the gap of the availability of rural infrastructures with that of the other states in order to know the Assam’s position. This paper deals with the secondary data of Assam in terms of adequacy or inadequacy of level of agricultural infrastructure.

Rural infrastructure, Social Overhead Capital, inclusive growth.

"A Comparative Study On The Availability of Rural Infrastructure in Assam vis-a-vis India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.656-665, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N99.pdf

"A Comparative Study On The Availability of Rural Infrastructure in Assam vis-a-vis India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp656-665, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905N99.pdf