Planning Machinery of India
Planning Machinery of India
1. The Planning Commission of India is responsible for the planning process of the
country but it has no sanction of its own, it is basically a non-political
advisory body. The Commission has full-time members and their number has varied
from time-to-time. Many a time Union ministers are appointed to Commission as
part time members. While the Prime Minister is the Chairman of the Commission,
it has a Deputy Chairman, three to eight full members, and a member-Secretary.
2. The
Administrative Reform Commission suggested many changes in its composition in
1967 but the Prime Minister continued to be the Chairman of the Commission as
before. This is very important for the Commission as the Prime Minister acts as
a crucial link and changes with every new government at the Center. Generally a
Minister of State also looks after the work of the Commission.
3. The
role of the Planning Commission includes assessment of the material, capital
and human resources of the country and possibility of augmenting them and
ensuring their optimum utilization. The Commission formulates five-year plans
and annual plans based on them and decides the priorities of the planning
process.
4. The
Planning Commission is also responsible to ensure proper conditions for successful
execution of its plans and to determine the nature of machinery required for
implementation at various stages. The. Commission undertakes time-to-time
appraisal of the progress and suggests necessary changes. As and when required
the Commission should make interim or ancillary recommendations.
5. According
to the Government of India Allocation of Business Rules, the Planning
Commission has been assigned the responsibilities of Hill Area Development.
Program, Directorate Planning, National Informatics Center (NIC) steps to
ensure public cooperation in national development.
Social development though
planning
1. Planning
gives expression to the idea of intervention and it is a central notion in
social development. Advocates of planning contend that social and economic
processes can be directed through rational intervention to improve society.
2. The
process of social development is not like the inherent process of social change
that is continuously taking place in every living community. Rather, it is the
result of conscious and deliberate intervention with the instruments of policy
and planning to bring about a non-random change towards the desired goal(s).
3. The
dictionary meaning of word ‘development’ is the act or process of growth to
more advanced or mature state of condition. Development is considered as
referring to economic aspects alone.
4. In
order to see the relevance of social aspect of development one has to go back
to history. In the wake of industrialization in Europe and in India too, came the accelerated urbanization of unprecedented scale. With it also came
overcrowding, slums, rural urban migration, social and occupational mobility,
some degree of social breakdown, crime, delinquency and organized commercial
vice. T
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is a familiar story, so familiar in fact that some amount of social
disorganisation came to be regarded almost as natural and, therefore, inevitable
concomitant of development
Role of planning
machinery of India
1. Planning
Commission The Planning Commission is the technical body for facilitating the
planning process in India. It was set up by the Government in March 1950. Its
chief function is to make an assessment of the material, capital and human
resources of the country, including technical personnel and investigate the
possibilities of augmenting these resources that are found to be deficient in
relation to the nation’s requirements.
2. The
Planning Commission performs its role as an advisory body functioning at the
highest policy level without further being involved in the responsibilities of
day-to-day administration. The prime minister is the Chairman of Planning
Commission. Within the general organisation of planning commission, the
Programmed Evaluation Organisation (PEO) has functioned since 1952 as an
ancillary agency.
3. It
undertakes evaluation studies to assess the impact of selected Plan and
programs in order to provide feedback to the planners and implementing
agencies.
4. National
Development Council Under the constitution, the subject of economic and social
planning is in the concurrent list as this is a subject in which the Centre as
well as the states are interested and have to work in unison. The coordination
of policies between the two integrating structures of the federal set-up is
brought about through a process of mutual consultation.
5. The
system of consultation in the formulation of policies on the basis of overall the national requirement is the central point of planning in the country. The
National Development Council is the highest policy-making body that provides
the opportunity for plans to be formulated and implemented throughout the the country as a unified development effort
6. iii)
State Level Planning As in the center, so also in the states, a number of
organizations and departments are involved in the planning process.:
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