Development small and medium towns

Though, essentially, written as an inquiry. into the effectiveness of the administrative machinery designated in a medium-sized
town in India to implement a Central Government Scheme (called, the "Integrated Development of Small and Medium Towns"), the eight chapters of this book, however. add up to something more than that. For, it attempts to identify and analyze specific organizational problems revealed in the study in such a manner that the discussion that follows and the findings that emerge can be said to have government-wide applicability and, hence, its value for all key government officials. Besides, Chapter I offers de pendable theoretical information which a generalist- administrator or a specialist (say, an urban planner/engineer) combining managerial tasks, can quickly refer to and use it for analyzing his organization am::l-given the necessary commitment to organizational goals-for changing it