Planning for Social and Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Professor D M Nanjundappa

by M.V. Nadkarni

Summary

The eighteen original essays in this volume highlight how planning is not merely a bureaucratic process and can coexist with, and function in, an economy dominated by market forces. Among the issues discussed education, land reforms, food and agriculture, energy, public finance, the environment and regional and state-level planning. The contributors show how planning needs to be an open process and cannot be confined merely to stepping up growth rates and investment, but that it must work towards placing people at the centre of the development process.