Abstract
The density of population in India, in general, and Northeast Macro Region India, in particular, has been increasing (2011 Census) very rapidly since 1991. An analysis of 2011 Census revealed that the higher rate of population growth has increased large number of population in India especially in the east and north-east macro-regions including Andaman–Nicobar Islands. This causes difficulty in maintaining the quality of life in both the rural and urban areas as referred by the sociologists, economists and politicians. Recently, the economists have highlighted an index of quality of life (2005) with the eight major points like material well-being, health, political stability and security, family life, community life, climate and geography, job security and political freedom. They have also presented an idea of quality of life in terms of different statistics, regression statistics—Tables of some countries’ score from 1 to 10 (Global 2005) including so-called developing–undeveloped countries.
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This author is grateful to Prof. S. C. Sarkar, of Geological Sciences (Retd.), Jadavpur University, Jadavpur and Dr. P. Nag (Retd.) Director, NATMO, Govt. of India, and Vice Chancellor of M. Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith University, Varanasi; who have extended their valuable advice and active co-operations in the preparation of this interdisciplinary paper on Quality of Life.
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Mukhopadhyay, S.C. (2019). Aspects of the Quality of Life in India and Its Macro Region. In: Sinha, B. (eds) Multidimensional Approach to Quality of Life Issues. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6958-2_12
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