Thursday, June 12, 2008

REGIONAL IMBALANCE AND REGIONAL PLANNING

REGIONAL IMBALANCE AND REGIONAL PLANNING
(During five year plans)


India is a diversified country. People are diversified on the basis of culture, language, standard of living, urbanization growth etc. since India get independence at 15th august 1947, various acts, programs and plans are made and implemented, state and national level respectively. Finance commission and planning commission were two higher level authorities who were responsible for the overall development of India as a one nation. During the first two five year plan period (1951-52 to 1961-62) sectoral planning was the main aim of development that sown the first seed of regional imbalance by developing one regional agricultural independent and other region lagged behind.
During the 4th and to 6th plan period when planner realized the value of regional planning, various programs and policies were announced for the sake of all around development. Indian government has implemented various policies in industrial sector for rural development.
1. Decentralization of industries.
2. Investment subsidies in economically backward regions.
3. Transportation subsidies.
4. MRTP and FERA restrictions were implemented to promote land scale industries in the rural sector.
5. Development of SEZs.
6. Development of Growth Poles.

Besides all this steps which is been taken for the decentralization of the industries to curb out regional imbalance, there were some specific problem based programs that were put into operation during 4th plan period and further modified and implemented in the next plan period. Among those, major 10 programs are;
1. Drought Prone Area Program (DPAP)
2. Command Area Program (CADP)
3. Small Farmer Development Agency (SFDA)
4. Crash Scheme for Rural Development (CSRE)
5. Plot Intensive Rural Employment Program (PIREP)
6. Special Hill Area Program
7. Integrated Tribal Development Program (ITDP)
8. National Rural Employment Program (NREP)
9. Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Program (RLEGP)
10. Jawahar Rozgar Yojna (JRY), this program is the outcome of the submergence of NREP and RLEGP.

With the help of above program shape of the India has been slightly changed. Now the area under regional imbalanced is negligible.

Presently there are various project in the pipeline to remove every aspect of regional imbalance viz..
1. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA)
2. Prime Minister Sadak Nirman Yojna
3. Public Distribution System (PDS)