Highlight the importance of Multi-level planning in the regional development of India.
( UPPSC, UP PCS, 2019, 10 Marks)
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Answer:
Planning for development can be two types:
- Single Level Planning
- Multi-Level Planning
In Single level Planning, planning is done at a central level and implementation is done on a regional level.
In Multi-level planning, countries can be divided into many regions and regions can be further divided into many sub-regions based on geographical, administrative, cultural, and political uniqueness. Planning is done at a sub-regional level that will provide bases for regional planning and further it will provide the basis of country-level planning.
Evolution of multi-level planning in India:
- In the first and second five years, India's approach for development was mainly centralized from a financial perspective.
- The first time, Mehta Committee report in 1957 supported multi-level planning. But finally, in 1993 multi-level planning was made mandatory in the state through 73rd and 74th Constitution amendment acts.
As of now, the following are the various level of planning in India:
- Centre
- States
- Districts
- Blocks
- Villages
Importance of Multilevel planning in regional development in India:
- India is a very diverse country both geographically and culturally; one plan at the national level can not be suitable for all over India, hence multi-level planning is very much needed for India.
- Framing policy at multi-level would be catering to the actual ground level requirement for the basic necessity. Multi-level planning helps to address local-level problems. For example,
- Some village facing water scarcity hence policy should be for water conservation
- Some region has flood problems, that policy should be to avoid the flood and strengthen infrastructure.
- It will help to reduce the regional disparity in India.
- It helps to better utilization of resources because local people participate more and policy is designated for the regional requirements.
- It uses local knowledge and techniques from local people experts to solve local issues.
- The involvement of local people provides quick and pragmatic feedback to planners and also provides a solution.
- Corruption will be minimized as local people audit the implementation.
- Multilevel planning is more sustainable than single-level planning
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