Regional Planning in the National Plan

The object of this paper is to present the principal issues relating to regional planning in India. It is divided into two parts. Part I describes the issues, the thinking relating to them, and the experience with some regional-planning policies, during the period of the three plans. Part II describes the politico-administrative structure within which planning is done in India, and the contribution of regional-planning techniques to improving efficiency of planning through this structure. The question of planning-regions has been discussed briefly, and the regions which can be easily incorporated within the politico-administrative structure, and some others which may need to be added for particular planning purposes, have been mentioned.