Comprehensive District Annual Plan 2011-12 Balasore District

Comprehensive District Annual Plan 2011-12 Balasore District
3.1. Background:
CHAPTER III
DISTRICT VISION – 2020
CORRESPONDING TO ANNUAL PLAN 2011-12
In a Participatory Development Planning process, a vision document is essential as it stirs
the imagination and motivates all segments of society to greater efforts for overall holistic
development. As rightly told by former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, “a vision
is not a project report or a plan target. It is an articulation of the desired end results in
broader terms”. Without a vision, plan documents are incomplete. Keeping this in view, it
has been made essential under the process of Comprehensive District Planning to prepare
Vision 2020 statement through a participative process starting from the grassroots to
perceive the status of district in terms of overall holistic development over the next 10-15
years. Such a vision statement would be a reference and guiding document during the
process of development of a district. A basic requirement of Vision 2020 Statement is path
of growth and development considering the strength, opportunities, weakness and threats.
The vision statement is neither a prediction of what will actually occur, nor simply a wish
list of desirable but unattainable ends. Rather it is a statement of what we believe is
possible for this district to achieve, provided we are able to fully mobilize all the available
resources – human, natural, organizational, technological and financial.
The objective of District vision is to arrive at an intergraded, participatory coordinated idea
of development of local area starting from the grass roots, as what would be the perspective
of development over the next 10 year. It deals with
• What are the needs and potential of the district?
• What are the attainable level over a period of time?
• What goals to be achieved?
Vision 2020 document of district will address three aspects of development.
• Human resource development
• Infrastructure development
• Productive sector development
Human resource development indicator will cover health, education, women and child
welfare, social justice and availability of basic minimum services. Infrastructure
development will cover the target under Bharat Nirman as applicable to the district.
Productive sector would consider what the potential of the district is and what can be
reached by 2020, considering the natural and human resources available in the district.
3.2. Vision 2020 statement:
Balasore, a district lying in coastal belt of Orissa is a model district of the country where
development of agriculture and allied sectors mainly fishery, livestock rearing, horticulture
and agro-based industries is the key to overall growth in rural economy and ensuring
sustainable rural livelihood. Such a development approach will make the district unique in the
state where there will be equitable growth in all the sectors with equitable benefits to the
citizens without compromising quality of life and discrimination due to gender, caste or creed.
3.3. Sector wise Vision Statement/Development Goals for the year 2020:
Agriculture
• The present confidence of farmers on cultivation and self reliance is not only
maintained, but also enhanced to a greater extent.
• Agricultural land is about 60% of the total geographical area of the district. Conversion
of agricultural land for other purposes is discouraged and utilization of aerial/vertical
space for habitation purpose is encouraged. Additional land is brought under
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