The government is responsible for developing all regions and states in a balanced way and removing regional disparties.
Most of the industrial progress was limited to a few areas like the port towns in the pre-Independence period.
Generally, private investors keep away from backward regions because of lack of adequate infrastructure facilities such as raw materials, transport, communication, warehousing, etc
Some Departmental undertakings under the Government of India are:-
Freedom from bureaucratic control
Flexibility of operations
Freedom from political interference
Benefit of Expertise
Best of both the worlds