Though infrastructural facilities were not altogether neglected for rural areas, expansion was confined mainly to urban centres and the more affluent sections of the society.
The climate, location and physical geography controls the development of infrastructure to a large extent. However, the reason for regional inequality in the development of the same can be found in the rural-urban bias and bias towards already rich states which receive the highest plan outlay in government planning. New investment in the private sector has a tendency to concentrate in an already well-developed area to reap more benefit.