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This article provides information about the evaluation of the appropriate approach for the successful implementation of micro-planning:
In India, micro-planning became a matter of concern and subject of study only in the early seventies of 20th century. The concept of micro- planning emerged taking in view the emerging socioeconomic conditions of the country and the inadequacy of past planning efforts in checking regional disparities.
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Micro-planning is a novel approach for an integrated and balanced development of an area. The location of specific resources and socio-economic activities, and their interlink ages over a region are major concerns of micro-level planning.
Micro-planning addresses itself to the specific spatial features of particular regions laying due emphasis on local problems, varying widely in potentials, perplexities, resources, infrastructures and needs. In a nutshell, micro level planning is concerned with the allocation of resources of the planning entity concerned, to maximise whatever goals the entity may have.
Till the Third Plan, India had gone through the exercises of macro-level planning without evolving any micro- level plans for implementation. The Fourth Plan, however, envisaged the necessity of micro-planning in rejuvenating an underdeveloped area by proper utilisation of the natural and human resources. It stressed upon the need to strengthen micro-planning at district and lower levels with an area development programme to provide infrastructure and other growth requirements in each area.
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The proponents of micro- planning felt that the planning exercise at the national and state levels cannot take into account the local variations in resources and needs, hence, an area development framework drawn upon at the district and block levels was considered to be more realistic than one formulated at the higher level.
In case of any micro or regional planning, four prime considerations are involved for its actual policy formulation and successful performance. They are: (i) identification of the specific needs of the area, (ii) an accurate assessment of the limits and opportunities imposed on available resources of the area, (iii) selection of suitable strategy for development, and (iv) proper coordination at multiple spatial levels. Moreover, in preparing a comprehensive micro-level area development plan there is a need to integrate the economic and social goals into a single whole in a more coordinated fashion.