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of Agriculture, Maharashtra, Dr. H. Ramachandran, Professor and Head, Department
of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Shri Ramesh Ramanathan, Janaagraha,
Dr. Rajesh Tandon, Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), enriched the
deliberations of the Joint Task Force. Shri A.K. Mehta, Joint Secretary, Ministry of
Urban Development and Dr. P.K. Mohanty, Joint Secretary and Mission Director
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Ministry of Housing
and Urban Poverty Alleviation made a valuable contribution regarding planning for
urban areas. Since some of the members had other commitments and could not
attend all meetings personally, they deputed their representatives who again made a
very professional and significant contribution to the work of the Task Force. Shri M.L.
Chotani, Additional Chief Planner, Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD),
Shri Gopal Prasad, Deputy Director, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation,
Shri Manoj Rai, Director, PRIA, Ms. Nandita Aras, Director, Research, Janaagraha,
Bangalore and Smt. Shruti Veenam, Yuva Janaagraha Coordinator, Janaagraha,
Bangalore must be mentioned here. Dr. D.C. Mishra and Ms. Rama Hariharan of the
National Informatics Centre (NIC) provided valuable support regarding ICT for district
planning. Mr. Pieter W. Bult, Deputy Country Director, United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and Ms. Sumita Banerji, Assistant Country Director, UNDP
contributed material on capacity-building of District Planning Committees (DPCs)
and Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) and provided inputs on Human Development
Reports (HDRs), gender issues and change management.
The task of writing up the processes, preparation of the formats and Annexes for
Volume II was performed by Dr. Sumedh Gurjar of YASHADA under the guidance of
Shri V. Ramani and Shri T.R. Raghunandan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati
Raj. Shri T. Raghunandan was mainly responsible for putting all the ideas together
and converting the written material provided by members, along with his own
learning and contribution, into a coherent document. From the Planning Commission,
Shri Sonkar, Adviser, Ms. Indu Patnaik, Deputy Adviser and Shri Avinash Chander
provided valuable support.
The Members of the Task Force express their gratitude to Shri B.N. Yugandhar, Member,
Planning Commission for his guidance, and to the Planning Commission for giving
them an opportunity to contribute to the development of a seminal document. We
hope this document will provide guidance to field officers in their task of preparing
District Plans that are based on a long-term vision, reflect the needs of the people,
and provide a framework for convergence of programmes and resources, so that
implementation of the plans yields optimal outcomes and helps address regional
imbalances, with a view to bringing all areas of the country into a twenty-first century
vision of development.
Rajwant Sandhu
Additional Secretary
Ministry of Panchayati Raj
11.11.2008
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