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REGIONAL PLANNING OF INDIA

 


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 :

  (1) Western Himalaya,

(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)

 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 (1972)

 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.

 

 

sayantani singh

MSC,GEOGRAPHY(B.ED)


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