Resource Appraisal and Planning in India

The author has attempted to determine the scale and content of planning decisions in various fields by the long term hypothesis of regional development (1971-1991) . Since development and employment potentials are mainly on the scale of development of the region's resources like soils, water, minerals, forests, agriculture and the people, and attempt has been made for a scientific resource inventory and appraisal. \nThe central object of the book is the delineation of hierarchy of regions for resource development and planning based on the evaluation of natural and cultural resources and their potentialities for a balanced and integrated regional economic development. In the light of the economic regionalisation approach like in U.S.S. R., plea for comprehensive and coordinated approach to regional development of Bundelkhand has been followed. The work deals with the inter-sectoral problems and inter-relations of different patterns emerging in the process of development generated by economic, social and cultural functions of the society. Allocative and innovativble, the two significant instrumental models of regional planning have been paid equal attention. \nThe northern areas of the study region are more developed then their southern counterparts and there is great difference between the rate of development of the two regions. As such, care has been taken to delineate regions disparities in economic development and growth because besides being the subject of regional development planning, they exhibit the most significant manifestations of serial differentiation resulting from human activity. Best possible solutions of the problems of lagging areas have been suggested to make for balanced regional development in the entire study area. \nTo facilitate the analysis the study has been split up into eight chapters; Planning in India, Physiography and Natural Resources, Demographic Dimension and Human Resources, Appraisal of Agricultural Resources, Industrial Development. Transportation, Hierarchy and Central Places, and Delimitation of Planning Regions.