Rural development and planning

It is an useful treatise suggesting concrete ways and means on resource development and planning of a neglected area of Great Plains of India, known as Rohikhand. The study high lights the required efforts in the name of spatial integration and functional organization, wherein latest techninues and models have been used, by working on...

(1) Generalisation of the complex nature of phenomena, being based on the multivariate principal components and linkage analysis.

(2) Areal homogeneity of generalised pro

perties of resources being adopted with the

help of a grouping method of factor analysis,

delemiting five contiguous regions.

(3) nalisation being based on a scien

tific logic of classificatory approach, viewing

maximum homogeneity and minimum hetero

geneity of taxonomic units.

(4) Chosing eight villages on the basis of random-purposive stratified sampling method for intensive study belonging to different planning regions.

(5) Considering locational selectivity and priority of settlements as growth centres for functional organisation.

(6) Emphasising road connectivity and detour for proper functional and spatial Integration,

and,

(7) Various aspects of agricultural, locational and transport planning, being based on the results of projected trend of population growth by 1991 and future needs assessed with the help of regression model and linear programming.

For a developing country like India such attempts are profitable exercises In Practical Planning Programmes, where different type of imbalances are observed on account of areal differentiation and unpredictable human behaviour. In case the imbalances in socio economic development are to be removed. effeective steps for allocation of resource components within the frame of planning regions need be promptly taken up. I am sure the geographers, economists, sociologists, regional planners and the government will not be slow in making use of the observations made in the present study.