Regional Development and Planning with special reference to India

Paper Code: 
GEO-422
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
15.00

Regional Planning: Concept, Nature and Scope and its Application to Planning. Regional Hierarchy, Types of regions: Formal and Functional Regions and methods of Regional delineation. Role of geography in regional planning

15.00

Concept of Development and Regional Development: Indicator of development and regional imbalances; Spatial and Non-Spatial Models of Regional Development;

a. Rostow’s Stage Theory

b. Growth Pole Theory and Growth centers.

c. Regional Income Inequality

d. Core Periphery

15.00

Regional Economic Complexes, Inter Regional and Intra Regional Functional     Interactions, The planning process: Concept and types; regional planning; concept, difficulties, rationale, principles and objectives.

15.00

Preparation of a regional plan; Regions for planning : Regional awareness, region and its evolution; planning regions; characteristics, hierarchy, need, demarcation; Surveys for planning : Concept and functions; types of surveys; regional surveys, diagnostic surveys, techno-economic surveys; Role of remote sensing, global positioning system (GPS) and geographic information system (GIS).

15.00

Concept of Planning Region. Regional Delineation in India: Physical and Economic Regions of India, Schemes of Planning Regions in India, Regional policies in India. Identification of Formal and Functional Regions of India, Regional Disparities in India.

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  13. Stamp,L.D.:Applied Geography.
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  16. Stampe,L.D.:Our Development World.
  17. Worting ten and Gant:Techniques of Map Analysis
Academic Year: 
2018-2019