Question

do you think district planning committee is needed for the development of urban areas .justify.

Answer 1

District Planning committee is the committee created as per the article 243ZD of the constitution of India at the district level.

District Planning Committee shall perform the following functions :-

(a) Identification of local needs and objectives within the perspective of national and state goal;
(b) Collection, compilation and updating of statistics of the natural and human resources of the district so that preparation of a decentralized plan on the basis of solid data base and preparing a blueprint of the resources of the district and blocks may be helped;
(c) Tabulation and Sketch - mapping of the facilities available at village, block and district levels;
(d) Policy - making and fixing of programmes and priorities for rational exploitation, use and development of the natural and human resources available in the district;
(e) Preparing blueprints of five year and annual plans for the district, consolidating the plans prepared by the Panchayat and the municipal bodies and assigning the same to the state government for inclusion in the state - plan;
(f) Preparing employment scheme for the district;
(g) Estimating financial resources for monetary support to the district plan ;
(h) Providing for finance of regional and sub - regional plans under the blue print of the entire district development planning;
(i) Persuation, evaluation and review of plans of the central domain, centre sponsored plan, plan of the State domain and the local area development schemes on the legislators, account, in the district;
(j) Submission of progress reports of the plans within the district to the State Government;
(k) Ensuring cooperation of non government organisations in the process of allround development of the district;
(l) Identifying institutional finance related plans and programmes and tagging them with the district development plan and providing necessary financial support;
(m) Advising the State Government regarding the important plans of the State domain in the process of the overall development of the district;
(n) Other functions assigned by the State Government, if any.


Section 129

Constitution of Sub- Committees -
(i) Keeping the functions of the District Planning Committee in view, the following Sub- Committees consisting of members from amongst the members of the District Planning Committee shall be constituted in the prescribed manner :
(a) Rural development programme Sub- Committee;
(b) Agricultural Development Programme Sub- Committee;
(c) Urban Development Sub-Committee;
(d) Irrigation Development Programme Sub-Committee;
(e) Scheduled Castes, Scheduled tribes, other backward classes and weaker section development and women and child development programme persuation Sub-Committee;
(f) Employment generation and availability Sub-Committee;
(g) Public Health and family welfare Sub-Committee;
(h) Education Sub-Committee;
(i) Water supply Sub-Committee;
(j) Road and Transport, development Sub-Committee;
(k) Sub Committee for determining use of land situated in investment area;
(l) Sub-Committee for persuation of the development work of the M.Ps. and Legislators Area Development Schemes;
(ii) The District Planning Committee may nominate as member in the Sub- Committee an expert of the particular field;
(iii) Every Sub-Committee may give suggestions only to the District Planning Committee on the subjects concerned;

In section 129 of District Planning Committee it is mentioned that there are sub committees for the development of urban areas and these committees are required for the development of urban areas too as it will provide help to those areas to get more employment schemes, and will get financial and monetary support for the accomplishment of further planning projects.

Answer 2

YES IT IS VERY NECESSARY.

EXPLANATION

Development of urban areas is a concern that the local and national government representatives should be consoled before making any  final decision.

Local district planning committee will have the correct response to the kind of the requirement the locals of the urban centers to be developed are needed .

The committee equal acts as a primary source of the information concerning the demands and the priorities of the occupants of such urban centers.

District planning Committee understand best the planning of the urban center and hence any adjustment needed to be made has to be in their correct guide.