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Q.Distinguish between centralised planning and decentralised planning.

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In centralised planning, a single central authority -- in India's case, historically the Planning Commission -- formulates the national plan, fixes priorities and allocates resources for the entire country, and implementation proceeds largely from the top down, with states and local bodies mainly executing decisions taken at the Centre. This approach can achieve a coherent, nationally consistent set of priorities and can mobilise resources for large, nationally important projects, but it risks being insensitive to local and regional variation in needs and conditions, and can reduce the sense of ownership that states and local bodies feel toward the plan.

In decentralised planning, planning functions and decision-making authority are devolved downward -- to state governments, district administrations and, at the grassroots, to panchayati raj institutions and urban local bodies. Local bodies identify their own priorities based on local needs and resources, and these local and district plans are then aggregated upward into state and national plans, so that the overall plan is built from the bottom up rather than imposed from the top down. …

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