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Planning and Sustainable Development in Indian Context

CBSE · Class 12 · Geography

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Planning in India: Evolution and Approaches

  • Planning involves thinking, formulation of schemes/programmes and implementation to achieve specific goals
  • India adopted centralized planning after Independence through Five Year Plans
  • Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog on 1st January 2015
2

Target Area and Target Group Approaches

  • Introduced to arrest regional and social disparities
  • Target Area Programmes: Command Area Development, Drought Prone Area Development, Desert Development, Hill Area Development
  • Target Group Programmes: Small Farmers Development Agency (SFDA), Marginal Farmers Development Agency (MFDA)
3

Hill Area Development Programme

  • Initiated during Fifth Five Year Plan covering 15 districts
  • Covered hilly districts of UP (now Uttarakhand), Mikir Hill and North Cachar hills of Assam, Darjeeling (West Bengal), Nilgiri (Tamil Nadu)
  • National Committee (1981) recommended areas above 600m height as backward hill areas
4

Drought Prone Area Development Programme

  • Initiated during Fourth Five Year Plan
  • Objectives: providing employment and creating productive assets
  • Initially focused on labour-intensive civil works, later on irrigation, land development, afforestation, grassland development

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A systematic approach to economic developmentSectoral planning focuses on developmentPlanning strategies introduced to address regionalDevelopment that meets present needs withoutReplaced Planning Commission on January 1

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