Book on Uttar Pradesh to hit market soon

/Business Wire IndiaUttar Pradesh - The Land and The People, authored by Subodh Nath Jha, Director General and Additional Secretary (Commerce) with Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, will hit the shelves across India soon.

New Delhi, Sept.21 (ANI/Business Wire India): Uttar Pradesh - The Land and The People, authored by Subodh Nath Jha, Director General and Additional Secretary (Commerce) with Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, will hit the shelves across India soon.

The book is published by National Book Trust, India.

The book aims to provide useful and authentic information with regard to the state of Uttar Pradesh, both about its past and present on a wide range of subjects viz., its physiographic, natural resources, area, population, history, culture, religion, polity, administration, infrastructure and economy.

The State of Uttar Pradesh is characterized with certain distinctive features which makes it completely different from other states of the country. Geographically, it is well placed, physically quite sound, historically greatly glorified, culturally profoundly rich, socially very significant and politically utmost virile, economically, however, despite being endowed with such niceties and potentialities, more than half-a-century's planned development, it still remains ominously a backward state.

The peculiarities and wonderfulness of the state can only be understood and translated into words by someone who has been deeply involved with the state and knows it in and out.

This book will provide necessary breadth and depth in understanding the past, the present multifarious phenomenon of Uttar Pradesh and prove equally useful to public in general and researchers, policy makers and planners in particular.

ANI