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Examine the role of people’s participation in successful decentralised planning in India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Regional Development and Planning

Needs identification. The plan needs facts no survey holds — which habitation runs dry in March, which channel silts first. That is local knowledge, and it enters only through people.

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  • Taking the claim apart — participation does different work at each stage
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  • The honest half
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