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Discuss the concept of multi-level planning as practised in India, and explain the implications of 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments in this respect.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Regional Development and Planning

Multi-level planning is planning for a variety of regions which together form a system and its subordinate systems — not one plan pushed down, but a plan written at every level for the region that level can see.

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  • The concept — a planning task decomposed by level
  • As practised — multi-tiered in form, top-down in substance
  • Implications of the 73rd Amendment — a mandatory rural tier and a joint
  • Implications of the 74th Amendment — the urban rung and the metropolitan joint
  • Where the ladder breaks

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