Figure 8.16: GDP income per capita (PPP) and industrial and IT centers in India. The presence of industry is often associated with higher incomes, and because of this, planners sometimes try to bring industry to low-income places. In some areas, poverty may be so great that even fairly intensive industrial development is able to raise average incomes above base levels only slowly. (The per capita income PPP information since 2009 for India’s states is not available.)

[Sources consulted: Directorate of Economics & Statistics of each of the respective state governments, 2006; GDP data from the Reserve Bank of India, Table 8, “Per Capita Net State Domestic Product at Factor Cost—State-Wise (at Current Prices),” at http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Publications/PDFs/008T_BST130913.pdf; data from “Comparing Indian States and Territories with Countries: An Indian Summary,” Economist, at http://www.economist.com/content/indian-summary]