Administration and Development Planning in India

The book is a collection of Dr. Nath’s writings on Administration and Planning with special reference to India. Section I contains lectures delivered by the author at the UN Institute of Training in Economic and Social Planning in the Middle East on Administrative Aspects of Planning –Theory and Practice with a section on organization of planning in France, India, Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Section II deals with the subjects which are of importance for Plan formulation and administration for implementation of the Plans. These relate to Administrative Reforms for demarcation of states and creation of new states and need for bifurcation of several very large states with creation of new administrative structures. Section III contains two chapters on Land Utilization and Settlement Patterns in India. Section IV on Population, Natural Resource Management and Development in India. Section V added on the suggestion of Dr. Rakesh Hooja and draws from the published volume Economic Development and Planning in India (Concept, 2010) in order to link the discussion in this Volume of the role of planning in changing internal and external political and financial developments.