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Planning & Regional Economics

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145 chapters 96,666 words ~387 min read English

1. CONCEPTS OF PLANNING OBJECTIVES
2. Importance of Planning
3. Major Objectives of Planning in India
4. Objectives of Planning in India
5. Planning under Capitalism and Mixed Economy
6. 1.6 SUMMARY
7. 1.7 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
8. Chapter REGULATIONS AND CONTROLS UNDER PLANNING
9. 2.1 REGULATIONS AND CONTROLS UNDER PLANNING (REVIEW OF VARIOUS PLANS: EVALUATION OF INDIAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
10. 2.2 EVALUATION OF INDIAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
11. Unemployment
12. Inequality
13. FISCAL POLICY IN INDIA: TRENDS AND TRAJECTORY
14. Monetary Policy-Meaning
15. Objectives of Monetary Policy
16. Instrument of Monetary Policy
17. 2.3 NEED FOR CREDIT CONTROL
18. ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUE OF NATIONALIZATION
19. 2.4 SUMMARY
20. 2.5 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
21. Chapter FORMULATION OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS
22. 3.1 FORMULATION OF DEVELOPMENT PLANS
23. Non-linear Programming
24. 3.2 INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS
25. 3.5 ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES
26. 3.6 PRICING IN PLANNING
27. 3.7 SUMMARY
28. 3.8 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
29. UNIT – III
30. Chapter FEDERALISM AND PLANNING
31. 4.1 FEDERALISM IN INDIA
32. Federal Finance: Concept, Principles and Problems
33. 4.2 RESOURCE ALLOCATION
34. 4.3 FINANCIAL ADJUSTMENTS
35. Transfer of Resources from Centre to States
36. Problems of Centre-state Financial Relations in India
37. Suggestions for Balanced Fiscal Federalism
38. Responsibility and Resources of the Centre and of the States
39. Legislative Relations: The Union State relations in the legislative domain have been dealt by Articles 245 to 254.
40. Functions of Union
41. Functions of State
42. Issues and Challenges Pertaining to the Federal Structure
43. Issues between the Centre and the States
44. Devolution of Powers and Finances up to Local Levels and Challenges therein
45. Local Self-Governing Institutions and Fiscal Devolution in India-A Historical Analysis
46. Local Self-Governance and Fiscal Decentralisation during Post-Independence Period
47. Major Challenges
48. NotesSources of Conflict Listed by the States
49. 4.4 STATES’ COMPLAI NT ON FI NANCI AL ARRANGEMENTS
50. 4.5 REGI ONAL I MBALANCES AS A SOURCE OF CONFLI CT
51. The Centre’s Case
52. 4.6 RAJAMANNAR COMMI TTEE ON CENTRE- STATE RELATI ONS
53. 4.7 REGIONAL BALANCES PLANNING AGENCY AND PERFECT PREPARATION (FOR BALANCED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT)
54. State Agencies
55. Investment Incentive
56. Infrastructure
57. Access to Services
58. 4.8 SUMMARY
59. 4.9 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
60. Chapter REGIONAL PLANNING
61. Regional Planning
62. 5.1 REGIONAL ACCOUNTS
63. 5.2 LINEAR PROGRAMMING
64. 5.3 INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS
65. 5.4 AREA PLANNING
66. 5.5 COMPARATIVE COST STUDIES
67. 5.6 INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ANALYSIS
68. 5.7 COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
69. 5.8 SYSTEM ANALYSIS
70. 5.9 SUMMARY
71. 5.10 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
72. UNIT – IV
73. 6.1 PLAN MECHANISM AT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS AND THEIR CO-ORDINATION
74. 4. Block Level
75. 5. Panchayat Level
76. Objectives and Importance of Planning
77. Features/Nature/Characteristic of Planning
78. Importance/Significance of Planning
79. Limitations of Planning
80. External Limitations of Planning
81. Planning ProcessNotes
82. ChapterPLAN MECHANISM AT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS AND THEIR CO-ORDINATION
83. 7.1 PLANNING COMMISSION
84. 7.2 PLANNING BOARDS
85. Formulation of Five Year Plan and Annual Plans
86. Process of Planning
87. Consultation of Planning Commission by Central Ministries on important Issues
88. Project Appraisal
89. Evaluation of Programmes
90. 7.3 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
91. 7.4 MECHANISM OF POLICY FORMULATION AT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVEL
92. 7.5 PLAN FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION IN INDIA
93. 7.6 SUMMARY
94. 7.7 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
95. Chapter
96. INDIAN PLANS AND ORISSA PLANS
97. 8.1 INDIA’S FIVE YEAR PLAN
98. Ninth Plan (1997-2002)
99. Tenth Plan (2002-2007)
100. Twelfth Plan (2012-2017)
101. 8.2 ORISSA PLANS
102. AN POWER PLANNING
103. 9.1 MAN POWER PLANNING: WITH REFERENCE TO INDIA
104. 9.2 HRP AT MACRO LEVEL
105. 9.3 MACRO LEVEL MANPOWER PLANNING IN INDIA
106. 9.4 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AT MACRO LEVELS
107. 9.5 APPROACHES TO MACRO LEVEL MANPOWER PLANNING
108. The Social Demand Approach
109. 9.6 LABOUR MARKET ANALYSIS
110. MACBETH Model
111. Labour Market Signalling
112. Labour Accounting Matrices (LAM’S)
113. 9.7 LABOUR ECONOMICS
114. 9.8 EMERGING TRENDS AND ISSUES IN HRP
115. 9.9 THE EFFECTIVENESS MACRO LEVEL HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING AND POLICY
116. 9.10 ORISSA MAN POWER PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
117. (I) Natural Resource Assessment : Endowments, Utilisation and Degradation
118. (II) Infrastructure Development
119. (III) Economic Growth, Structural Change and Workforce Participation
120. (IV) Performance of Agriculture in Orissa - Intertemporal and Spatial Variations
121. (V) Forest Resource and Forest Management Policy
122. (VI) Industrialisation in Orissa: Structure, Policy and Prospects
123. (VII) Handloom and Handicrafts: Development and Constraints
124. Notes(VIII) Poverty and Living Conditions
125. (IX) Social Sector Development
126. (X) Socio-Economic Profile of KBK Districts
127. (XI) Fiscal Imbalances: Dimensions, Issues and Implications
128. (XII) Tourism: Miles to go
129. (XIII) Power Sector Reform in Orissa: A Case Study in Restructuring
130. (XIV) Disaster Management
131. (XV) An Overview of the Scheduled Tribes in Orissa
132. (XVI) Development Scenario of the Village
133. 9.11 MAN POWER,POLICY AT NATIONAL AND REGIONAL LEVELS UNDER FIVE YEAR PLANS
134. 9.12 INTEGRATED STRATEGIC PLANNING AND HR
135. Need for Human Resource Planning
136. Objectives of Human Resource Planning
137. Determinants of HRP
138. Analyzing Factors for Manpower Requirements on Demand Side (Demand Forcasting)
139. Analyzing Factors for HR Requirements on Supply Side (Supply Forecasting)
140. Estimating the Net HR Requirements
141. 9.13 CONTROL AND REVIEW MECHANISM
142. Strategies for Human Resource Planners
143. Limitations of HR Planning
144. 9.14 SUMMARY
145. 9.15 SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

Preview: CONCEPTS OF PLANNING OBJECTIVES

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Learning Objectives

The objectives of this lesson are to:

Meaning of Planning or Concepts of Planning

Need for planning or Objectives or aims or Objectives or aims of planning

Rationale of Planning in India

Planning under capitalism and mixed economy

Evaluation of Indian Planning and Development

Fiscal Policy in India: Trends and Trajectory

Administrative issue of nationalization

Structure:

1.1 Meaning of Planning or Concepts of Planning

1.2 Historical Overview of planning

1.3 Important Features of Economic Planning

1.4 Need for Planning or Objectives or Aims or Objectives or Aims of Planning

1.5 Rationale of Planning in India

1.6 Summary

1.7 Self Assessment Questions

1.1 MEANING OF PLANNING OR CONCEPTS OF PLANNING

Planning may be defined as means to an end. The end being the realization of certain predetermined and well defined aims and goals laid down by a central planning authority. The end is to achieve economic, social, political and other objectives.

Planning involves deliberate control and direction of the economy by a central authority. In this planning the propose of achieving deliberate control and direction of the economy by a central authority. In this planning the purpose of achieving definite targets and achievements within a specified period of time. Economic planning implies overall planning of the economy as a whole.

Notes

Micro Planning

Micro Planning deals with only specific parts of the economy. For instance: Planning for a region or a town, planning for the development of sugarcane or for textiles production.

Macro Planning

National economic planning is a macro planning because it deals with the whole economy.

Definitions of Planning

Various definitions of planning have been given by different writers.Each emphazising one or the other aspect of economic planning:

(a) Prof. Wilhelm Keilhan thinks Economy consists in a totality of planned efforts to realize certain purposes.

(b) Mrs. Wootton thinks Economic planning is a system in which the market mechanism is deliberately manipulated with the object of producing a pattern other than which would have resulted from its spontaneous activity.

(c) Prof. D.R. Gadgil thinks the planning for economic development implies external direction or regulation of economic activity by the planning authority which is, in most cases, identified with the Government of the state.

(d) Lewis Lordwin defined planning as a scheme of economic organization in which individual and separate plants, enterprises and industries are treated as co-ordinate units of one single system for the purpose of utilizing available resources to achieve the maximum satisfaction of the people’s needs within a given time.

1.2 HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF PLANNING

Norway Prof. Kristian Scholeyder was first introduced, Russian planning is a one of the economic activity. In Russia 1928 introduced the 1st five year plan. In 1934, Sir M. Visvesvarry published a book namely “The planned Economy for India”. This book created new interest in the minds of the people and as a result few more book appeared on planning.

Jawaharlal Nehru, the architect of planning in India, set up the National planning committee towards the end of 1938. In the National Planning Committee (NPC) eight industrialists conceived ‘A plan of Economic Development’ which was popularly known as the Bombay plan. There was also a Gandhian plan prepared by Shriman Narayan. The world famous revolutionary M.N. Roy formulated the people’s plan. In August 1964, the Government of India created by Planning and Development Department under the charge of Sir A. Dalal. In 1946, a Planning Advisory Board was set-up by the in trim government. In March 1950, the planning Commission was set up with the fourfold objectives.

Types of Planing

There are several types of planning some of them are:

1. General Planning and Partial Planning

(a) General Planning: The plan covers all aspects of the economy and the central authority completely controls the investments and utilisation of resources.

(b) Partial Planning: It is a sort of piecemeal planning, the plan that covers only some important aspects of the economy. Strictly speaking, partial planning is no planning.

2. Functional Planning and Structural Planning

(a) Functional Planning: Planning may be attempted within the existing social economic framework. Functional planning attempts to modify or improve the existing structure or repair or rehabilitate. Functional planning is evolutionary e.g., Indian economy after the partition.

(b) Structural Planning: It may seek to change the economic structure radically. Structural planning s revolutionary, e.g., China.

3. Planning by Inducement and Planning by Direction

(a) Planning by Inducement: This is planning through the market mechanism. The planner either subsidises production or controls price intended to increase the consumption of a commodity....

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