Roads matter at the periphery: India’s post-liberalization road projects in the Northeast

Bhattacharya, Rakhee; Deka, Nijara

doi:10.1007/s40847-021-00161-1

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“…These projects have had significant effects on the local economy and population. They have transformed the region's image from 'remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped' to an accessible area experiencing economic progress (Bhattacharya & Deka, 2021).…”

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Roads to Renewal: Investigating the Socio-Economic Influence of the Yamuna Expressway on Aligarh-Jewar Region

Hemant Kumar,

Shubham Sharma

2024

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Infrastructure projects often claim to transform the communities through which they cross. This study investigates the social and economic implications of the Yamuna Expressway in Indias Aligarh-Jewar region. Through the utilization of a combination of methods, the research examines the impact of this extensive infrastructure project on local job opportunities, trends in urban growth, and alterations in peoples means of living. The highway has greatly decreased commute times and has facilitated economic and social changes throughout the area. The results indicate that despite significant economic growth and infrastructure improvements, issues like environmental damage and social inequities also emerge. This study adds to the knowledge of how transport infrastructure affects regional development, providing important information for decision-makers and those involved in similar projects. It also examines the role of policy in managing these outcomes, emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and inclusive growth strategies. This paper contributes to understanding the dualistic impact of transport infrastructure on regional development, offering insights that are vital for policymakers and stakeholders engaged in similar infrastructure projects. KEYWORDS: Regional development, social dynamics, urbanization effects, socio-economic impact, environmental implications, government policies, road development, infrastructure development

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Roads to Renewal: Investigating the Socio-Economic Influence of the Yamuna Expressway on Aligarh-Jewar Region

Hemant Kumar,

Shubham Sharma

2024

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“…From the point of economy, the bridge has developed an ecosystem of entrepreneurship. The 9.15-km-long Bhupen Hazarika Setu or the Dhola-Sadiya Bridge (Bhattacharya & Deka, 2021; Blah, 2018; Government of Assam, n.d.; Pattnaik, 2017; Sodhi, 2016; Ziipao, 2020) connects northern Assam with eastern Arunachal Pradesh and is built on the Lohit River, one of the major tributaries of the Brahmaputra River. The bridge began functioning in 2017 and has proven to be a catalyst in transforming the connectivity imagination of the border space.…”

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The Materiality of Space: Infrastructuring the Border Space in Arunachal Pradesh

Panda

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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The materiality of space refers to the material constituents determining the space. The spatial imagination of the borderland, characterised by critical spatiality, is materially constituted. The fact of being materially constituted means to be infrastructurally configured. The infrastructures here include hydro projects, highways, railroads, bridges, tunnels, airports, digital connectivity and other defence-related installations. These projects combine a two-pronged approach: security and development. The security challenges that the border space embodies compel the state to adopt an approach of competitive infrastructure building. The nature of this competition is determined by the competing other’s approach towards the border space. Arunachal Pradesh is a very critical border state that shares its crucial border space of 1,080 km with China, 160 km with Bhutan and 440 km with Myanmar. China’s increasing geopolitical clout in the region intensifies its spatial and material prominence. India under its Act East Policy (AEP) formulation in 2014 has taken up a very determined approach to accelerating infrastructure growth in the northeast and more particularly in Arunachal Pradesh for its border spatiality. Therefore, the border space loses its inferential, conjectural and abstract character and becomes materially determined. This imperative for materiality embodies, on the one hand, development, modernity, capitalist social space and mainstreaming of the neglected and, on the other hand, protectionism and upgradation of security architecture along critical geography known as the border space. Therefore, this study examines the development of materiality, meaning infrastructure, in a complex border space like Arunachal Pradesh. It decodes the economic logic of the systematic development of border space by the Indian nation-state from the point of view of the growth of the region and security urgency. It uses Henri Lefebvre’s theoretical formulations of spatiality to understand the convoluted category of border space and the introduction of material forces to achieve security and developmental objectives.

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The Idea of Northeast India: Contesting the Construct

Bhattacharya

2024

Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development

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Roads matter at the periphery: India’s post-liberalization road projects in the Northeast

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Roads to Renewal: Investigating the Socio-Economic Influence of the Yamuna Expressway on Aligarh-Jewar Region

Roads to Renewal: Investigating the Socio-Economic Influence of the Yamuna Expressway on Aligarh-Jewar Region

The Materiality of Space: Infrastructuring the Border Space in Arunachal Pradesh

The Idea of Northeast India: Contesting the Construct

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