Abstract
The allocation of appropriate funds for any development sector is a major issue in which the three levels of rural development are involved, namely the Panchayats, its block and district. There is a huge disparity between the funds proposed under a bottom-up decentralized planning system from the Panchayat and block levels and the top-down release of funds from the district. The targeted beneficiaries are totally unaware of the development goals and their priorities for fund utilization. Besides, there is a major gap in the sector-wise planning for funds and the scheme-wise release of funds due to a lack of clarity on sector-wise allocation of funds involving various schemes. Further, there are various government agencies to actuate the development mostly under the influence of vested interest groups. India as a country is largely rural, out of which a significant area is still backward. For India to improve its development indices of health, education and livelihood, there have to be some innovative approaches that can provide effective objective functions based decentralized planning model for backward area development. The five-year plans of India henceforth have to be more meaningful in terms of priority based backward areas development. Key words: Decentralized planning, objective functions and planning model.
Highlights
The benefits of development efforts through the exotic models did not percolate to the roots of our society perfectly and as a consequence a significant portion of the India's population lies below the poverty level in backward areas
The envisaged innovative planning model was applied at one Block level (Keshiary Block)
It is quite natural that the envisaged planning model may not score any visible benefits right from its actual adaptation by the concerned authorities
Summary
The benefits of development efforts through the exotic models did not percolate to the roots of our society perfectly and as a consequence a significant portion of the India's population lies below the poverty level in backward areas. The centralized approach in planning failed to recognize the micro-level variations that persist in different dimensions of planning such as spatial, sectoral and sectional (population). Wherever isolated efforts were made to confute this, they were all intermittent and could never become a perpetual process. Such planning efforts stood more on investment for consumption than investment for production of goods and services for development.
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