How can developing countries like India reduce inter-regional disparities in human development within the education and healthcare sectors in the 21st century?
By implementing region-specific policies and resource allocation
Inter-regional disparity means some regions (often rural or backward areas) lag behind others in schooling, literacy and health facilities. Reducing it requires directing more resources to the lagging regions, not the already-developed ones.
Region-specific policies and targeted resource allocation channel funds, teachers, hospitals and schemes to the areas that need them most, so backward regions can catch up and overall disparity falls.
The other options concentrate resources in capital cities or urban areas, or cut rural spending, all of which would widen the gap between regions rather than narrow it.
Hence, disparities are reduced by implementing region-specific policies and resource allocation.
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