REGIONAL
PLANNING OF INDIA
A
planning region is a segment of space over which economic decisions take place.
The term planning in the present means taking decisions to implement them in
order to attain economic development. Planning regions may be administrative or
political regions such as state, district or the block because such regions are
better in management and collecting statistical data.
Hence, the entire country is a planning
region, state is the planning region for state plans and districts or blocks
are the planning regions for micro regional plans.• planning region can be
micro , macro and meso planning regions.
CLASSIFICATION OF PLANNING REGION
Ø L.S. Bhat
and V.L.S. Prakasa Rao (1964)
Bhat
and Rao proposed a regional frame-work for resource development. Delineation
was done with the help of qualitative maps of distribution of important natural
resources. The major regions cut across the state boundaries.
However,
administrative convenience was not ignored. The scheme
included 7 major and 51minor regions.
Ø Seven
major regions include:
(1)
South India,
(2)
Western India,
(3)
Eastern Central India,
(4)
North-Eastern India
(5)
Middle Ganga Plain,
(6)
North-Western India,
(7)
Northern India.
¨ V.
NATH (1965).
V. Nath prepared a scheme of Resource Development
Regions and Division of India based at the homogeneity in physical factors, and
agricultural land use and cropping pattern. Although the regions cut across the
state boundaries, the division is kept within the state limit.
Thus the entire country has been divided into 15
major and 48 minor regions.
These major resource development regions include
:
(2) Eastern
Himalaya,
(3) Lower
Ganga Plain,
(4) Middle
Ganga Plain,
(5) Upper Ganga Plain,
(6)
Trans-Ganga Plain,
(7) Eastern
Plateaus and Hills,
(8) Central Plateaus and; I Hills
(9) Western
Plateaus and Hills,
(10) Southern Plateaus and Hills
(11) Eastern
Coastal Plains and Hills,
(12) Western
Coastal Plains and Ghats,
(13) Gujarat
Plains and Hills,
(14) Western Arid Region,
(15) Island Region.
P.Sen Gupta (1968) presented a frameworkof
economic regions of different order. She started with the discovery of planning
units of the lowest order and then grouped and regrouped them to achieve
planning regions at meso and macro levels. In her scheme of economic regions,
Sen Gupta gave much importance to natural regions and used modality, production
specialization and utilization of power resources as bases of delineation.
Her
7macro regions are further divided into 42meso regions . These 7
regions include:
(1) North Eastern Region,
(2) Eastern Region,
(3) Northern
Central Region
(4) Central
Region,
(5)
North-Western Region,
(6) Western
Region,
(7) Southern
Region
C.S. Chandrasekhar proposed a scheme of
planning regions . He divided India
into 13 micro and 35meso planning regions. He used the criteria of physical economic
and ecological factors to demarcate the macro planning regions.
These regions
include:
(1) South
peninsular region,
(2) Central
peninsular region
(3)Western peninsular region,
(4)Eastern peninsular region,
(5)Central Deccan region,
(6) Gujarat
region,
(7) Western Rajasthan region
(8) Aravali
region
(9) Jammu & Kashmir and the ladakh region,
(10) Trans into Gangetic region & the hill
regions,
(11) Ganga- Yamuna plain region ,
(12) The lower Ganga plain region,
(13)
North-Eastern region ,
* NATMO
Under the
directorship of Professor S.P. Chatterji (1966), the National Atlas Organization proposed
a 4-tier scheme of economic regions. In this scheme macro
regions constitute a group of states delineated with reference to the factors like
population, politico-historical considerations, economic, agricultural output,
and complementary character of natural resources.
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