Regional Development (Generic Elective)

Paper Code: 
GGEO 201
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
20.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
  • Definition of Region, Evolution, Types and Need of Regional planning: Formal, Functional, and Planning Regions and Regional Development.
  • Regional Imbalances and Problems of Functional Regions.

 

 

20.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
  • Choice of a Region for Planning: Characteristics of an Ideal Planning Region; Delineation of Planning Region.
  • Region; Regionalization of India for Planning. (Agro Ecological Zones)
  • Strategies/Models for Regional Planning: Growth Pole Model of Perroux; Growth Centre Model in Indian Context; Village Cluster.

 

20.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

·   Problem Regions and Regional Planning: Backward Regions and Regional Plans- Special Area Development Plans in India; DVC-The Success Story and the Failures.

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