REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Generic Elective)

Paper Code: 
24GGEO 201
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objective:Regional development is the core area of geographical inquiry. Decentralized planning has a profound role in managing the evolved situation.

 

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24 GGEO 201

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regional Development

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO20: Students will get familiarized with the theoretical foundation and conceptual grounding of this branch; they will understand and identify regions as an integral part of geographical study.

CO21:  Students will learn about the role and relevance in regional planning and about regional imbalances.

CO22: This unit will give a thorough understanding of choice of planning region and process of delineation of planning regions based on selected parameters.

CO23: Students shall be well-versed with models of regional planning and appreciate the relevance of the regional planning.

CO24: This unit shall provide theoretical perspective on the models and special area development plans of regional planning.

CO25:Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

Approach in Teaching:

 

Interactive lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstrations.

 

 

Learning activities for the students:

 

Self- learning assignments, effective questions, Seminar presentation.

Class Test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in Tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and Group projects.

 

 

Unit I    

  • Definition of Region
  • Types and Need of Regional Planning
  • Formal, Functional and Planning regions.

 

 

 

Unit II                                                                                                                               

  • Regional Development
  • Regional Imbalance
  • Problems of Functional Regions

 

 

Unit III                                                       

  • Choice of a Region for Planning
  • Characteristics of an Ideal Planning Region
  • Delineation of Planning Regions

 

 

Unit IV                                                                                                                          

  • Regions : Regionalization of India for planning (Agro Ecological Zones)
  • Strategies / Models for Regional Planning
  • Growth pole model of Perroux

 

 

Unit  V                                                                                                                               

  • Growth center model in Indian Context : Village Cluster
  • Problem Regions and Regional planning
  • Backward Regions and Regional plans
  • Special area development plans in India
  • DVC- The success story and failure
Essential Readings: 

1. Adell, Germán (1999) Literature Review: Theories and Models Of The Peri-Urban Interface: A

Changing Conceptual Landscape, Peri-urban Research Project Team, Development Planning Unit,

University College London at

2. Bhatt, L.S. (1976) Micro Level Planning in India. KB Publication, Delhi

3. Deshpande C. D., 1992: India: A Regional Interpretation, ICSSR, New Delhi.

4. Dreze J. and A. Sen, Indian Development: Select Regional Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 1996).

5. Ses, Amratya (2000) Development as Freedom. Random House, Toronto 6. Raza, M., Ed. (1988).

6. Regional Development. Contributions to Indian Geography. New Delhi, Heritage Publishers.

7. Rapley, John (2007) Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the 3rd World. Lynne

Rienner, London.

8. Schmidt-Kallert, Einhard (2005) A Short Introduction to Micro-Regional Planning, Food and

Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

 9. Sdyasuk Galina and P Sengupta (1967): Economic Regionalisation of India, Census of India.

References: 
  • Raza, Munish, 1993, Social Structure and Regional Development, Rawat Publications.
  • Mandal, R.B., 1990, Patterns of Regional Geography, Concept Publishing Company Pvt Limited.
  • Chorley,R.J., Hagget Peter, 1974, Network Analysis in Geography, Hodder and Stoughton Educational Publisher.                                                    

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024