Planning at the grass roots

It is now generally realised that there is a strong case for planning at the grass roots for a country of the size and diversity of India. The present book indicates the broad framework within which such planning should be organised, discusses the reasons for its slow progress and evaluates the Indian experience with special reference to recent developments. It analyses the planning functions of institutions working at the district, block and village levels, examines the planning processes of poverty alleviation programmes like IRDP, NREP and RLEGP and provides guidelines on issues related to people's participation in grass-roots planning.

A comprehensive book on the subject, it provides a detailed discussion of both the methodological and the organisational aspects of microlevel planning with suitable illustrations drawn from field studies conducted by the author. It makes suggestions for raising the quality of planning at the grass roots, advancing several new ideas and approaches give it a new thrust and direction The issues discussed and the material provided will be of immense help to students, teachers, researchers and all those interested in problems of planning at the grass roots and specially to practitioners of planning at all levels in India and other similarly situated countries.