We are in the era of regional dissatisfaction throwing numerous issues to our planners developing nations. Regional systems are less understood in context of planning. Rather its administrative systems that has taken care of planning in India and developing nations. We are made to believe that administrative boundries are apt for the planning, so is district planning has been evolved and practiced in India. Now, with limited natural resources and quality of human being, inter-exchange between the regions have become important, thus resulting in migration of human beings and transfer of goods inbetween regions. You may call it districts attracting or repelling its resources and manpower to the neighbouring regions pulling the resources.
Urban centres have been major source of regional development resulting in its growth or decline. These centres whether small, medium or big cities or metro have affected the aggregated regional characterstics, this may trans district or block or taluka. In this context we are yet to undertake a serious excercise in assessment of situation. Regional plans are limited in scope in urban areas more so not instrumental in targetting the region, as a whole these are more of servicing the city or urban centres. Villages or Panchayat have limited role in making such plans. Whether we have cared for such regions which during our various plan periods we might have identified? Can'nt say for sure, we are not servicing the region or thinking about resource balancing or assessment. Then how and when we should talk about climate change, sustainable development and socio-economic development. Rather thought are limited to few academicians, and decision makers, we need to be seriously thinking about it. What do you say?
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