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Manual for Integrated District Planning
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(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
Spatial integration: meaning integration of schemes such as roads that run through
one or more local bodies.
Sectoral integration: which integrates several schemes relating to a larger sector.
Cross-sectoral integration: aimed to ensure maximum impact from different
interventions, by drawing resources from various schemes.
Vertical integration: which separates out what has to be done at higher Panchayat
levels, which have the advantages of scale, and which cannot be done by the
lower tiers of local government.
Integration of resources: which looks at identifying and planning the
channelisation of several schemes both central and state sponsored, which
Panchayats can utilise, integrate into local plans and to which they can
contribute additional resources.
7.4.2 A consolidation checklist can address all dimensions as listed above.
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• Potential for vertical integration of works and projects, across rural and urban plans.
• Potential for resource pooling, need to address efficient usage of resources wherever
they may lie or the need to address inefficiencies and spill over effects on other
local governments that may arise from the use of resources in a stand alone fashion
by them.
• Addressing inter-sectoral dependencies to ensure successful project or plan
implementation.
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Questions to be answered
Questions regarding vertical integration
Physical proximity
Are there projects that can be
integrated, because they are
physically close to each other?
Common stakeholders
Are there projects affecting
both rural and urban people,
which require collective and
coordinated action?
The answer would commence with location
mapping of projects in rural and urban areas
so as to identify projects that can potentially be
integrated.
For example markets, bus terminals, hostels,
hospitals, colleges, combined urban-rural water
supply schemes etc.
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