Development Administration and Multi-Level Planning
Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. The administration of planning/A.H. Hanson. 2. Promise and prospect of local level planning in India/Kuldeep Mathur. 3. Role of are a development in multi-level planning/Lalit K. Sen. 4. Multi-level planning for industry/Ram K. Vepa. 5. Gaps in the Indian process of planning: importance of regional planning/P.R. Dubhashi. 6. Future role of planning under new perspectives/Kamta Prasad. 7. Good governance at district level: a case study of district planning/Rajesh Sharma. 8. Planning for rural development by field staff: a view from Rajasthan/Rakesh Hooja. 9. Regions for planning/V. Nath. 10. Area development: planning at district and block levels/V. Nath. 11. Administering the planning system/Shriram Maheshwari. 12. Planning and administrative development/P.S. Bhatnagar. 13. People\'s participation in planning/C. Ashok Vardhan. 14. Organization for metropolitan planning and development/Abhijit Datta. 15. District plans, monitoring and the poor: an administrator\'s view point/M.A.S. Rajan. 16. Evaluating planning machinery at sub-national levels: an integrated framework/Y. Venugopal Reddy. 17. Evolution and practice of decentralized planning in India/B.M. Joshi. 18. Public administration and plan implementation/Nitish R. De. 19. District planning process: a case study in Karnataka/L. Shridharan. 20. Multi-level planning and local government structure/Deva Raj. 21. District planning in Maharashtra/N.R. Inamdar. 22. The district as a planning unit: style and locus/Rakesh Hooja. 23. District planning: the case of Maharashtra/K.V. Sundaram. Index.
"Multilevel planning as an approach assigns the task of planning for the development and optimal utilization of resources to the local agencies or units of administration and thus creates intermediary levels between the centre, states and local units. The essays in this book focus upon multilevel planning as a technique, methodology and strategy for development administration and identify the process that went into evolution of multilevel planning as a cogent structure in the overall planning policy. The volume presents an exciting mix of studies based upon field experience, concepts and principles of decentralized multilevel planning. It examines the pitfalls, inadequacies and feasibility of this alternative development paradigm, underlining the dynamic role of institutional and participatory structures." (jacket)
