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The economy of Himachal Pradesh is dependent upon the Agriculture & Horticulture and any fluctuation in the production impacts the economy at large. Districts of Himachal Pradesh have been ranked on the basis of their levels of development obtained with the help of optimum combination of 35 indicators related to agriculture, social and industrial sectors. The district wise data in respect of the indicators published by Himachal Pradesh government for the year 2014–15 were used for all 12 districts in Himachal Pradesh for the present study. Techniques adopted by Narain et al. (1991, 1995) have been used in addition to principle component analysis and factor analysis for ranking the districts. The districts Kangra, Mandi, Sirmaur and Shimla were found to be most developed whereas the districts Lahaul and Spiti, Kinnaur, Bilaspur and Hamirpur were found to be low developed districts in the overall development.

In the present study, western districts of Uttar Pradesh were under the study area and currently in developing stage and have undertaken several policy measures to enhance the levels of the development in agriculture, social and industrial sectors. This study attempted to capture the development of districts of western Uttar Pradesh. The secondary data on a number of indicators published by Uttar Pradesh government for the year 2011–12 have been used in the study. The principal component analysis, factor analysis and techniques adopted by Narain et al. (1991) have been used. The ranking of the districts in respect of performance in agriculture, Social and Industry have been obtained in this study. The Composite Indices (C.I.) of development in respect of 18 developmental indicators in which 6 indicators were directly concerned with agricultural development and the rest of 12 indicators describe the availability of social and industrial facilities for 26 districts of western Uttar Pradesh. District Hathras (C.I.=0.81) was showed a higher level of development in Agricultural development followed by the districts Badaun (C.I.=1.14) and Bareily (C.I.=1.16) while district Sambhal (C.I.=0.88) was found to be most developed district in social sector followed by Firozabad (C.I.=1.08) and Ghaziabad (C.I.=1.09) district. G.B. Nagar (C.I.=0.57) showed a higher level of development in Industrial sector followed by Ghaziabad (C.I.=0.75) and Firozabad (C.I.=0.76) district.