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Comment: Decentralized Planning.

  • UPSC 2006
  • 20 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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Decentralised planning means that each tier of government plans for the functions within its competence, using resources it controls, and that district, state and national plans are built upward from these local plans. It is devolution of planning discretion, not deconcentration, which only posts central officials in the field. The idea goes back to M.…

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