IDDP-Report Vol-III

<< VOL-I perspective plan << VOL-II execution plan next >> << cover << VOL-I pers next >> << previous << VOL-I pers next >> MESSAGE Comprehensive development with social justice is the declared agenda of the Government. Development becomes comprehensive when the economic, social and physical dimensions are integrated. Equal accessibility to opportunities for all sections of the society will ensure socialjustice.Accessibility to opportunities shall be guaranteed tothe present society, consideringthe ability of thefuture generation to meet their needs as well. Such a development ought to be achieved in a democratic manner for which people’s participation in development is inevitable. In order tofulfil the Government’s commitmenttowards decentralized planning, thePeople’s Planning Campaign movement was introduced in our State during the Ninth Five Year Plan. Efforts were made in successive Five Year Plans to strengthen decentralization. Districtplanninghas becomethemost importantlinkinthe whole system ofdecentralized planningbecausethisisthe cutting edge ofadministration. The present system of decentralized planning needsto be perfected bygiving adequate emphasis todistrict planning which in turn is the constitutionallyenvisaged function of theDistrict Planning Committees. The pilot projectof preparation of IntegratedDistrict Development Plan andLocal Development Plans for each Local Government, taken up by the District Planning Committee, Kollam with the Department of Town and Country Planning as nodal agency is highly noteworthy inthis respect. This hasto be viewed as a natural progression ofdecentralized planning. The viable methodology of preparation of local plans and district plans with the involvement of people, elected leaders and experts, piloted and validated at Kollam has gained nationwide acceptance. Kollam District of Kerala now owns thepride of having a total Plan for its development and the District PlanningCommittee of Kollam has becomethe pioneer in fulfillingthe constitutionally mandated responsibility of being the planning authority of the district.The success of any plan lies in its implementation. I am sure that District Planning Committee of Kollam will succeed in this regard too. Paloli Mohamed Kutty Minister for Local Self Government Thiruvananthapuram Government of Kerala << previous << VOL-I pers next >> FOREWORD The 74th AmendmentAct of the Constitution of India, mandated District Planning Committee to prepare a draft development plan for the district. As per Article243 ZD of theConstitution, the District Planning Committeeshall consolidate Panchayat / Municipality Plans in the district andprepare a draft developmentplan for the districtas a whole.TheArticlespecifies that while preparing draft development plan, due regardshall be given tomatters of common interest between panchayats and municipalities including spatial planning, sharingof water and other physical and natural resources, the integrated development of infrastructure and environmental conservation. The Constitution stipulates to consult such institutions and organizations decided by the State while preparing the District Development Plan. The District Planning Committee, Kollam, wanted to fulfil its Constitutional obligation and to have comprehensive development of the District with the participation of local governments in the district. This led to the important initiation towards preparation of an Integrated District Development Plan (IDDP) for Kollam along with Local Development Plans (LDP) for each and every local governments in the district in an integrated manner. The entire process was implemented with the involvement of people, local governments, line departments, NGOs etc. The Department ofTown and Country Planning gave technical support for Plan preparation besides coordinating the entire process. It is of no doubt that this methodology of plan preparation qualitatively strengthens the Decentralized Planning Process. The planning process is ‘top-down’- ‘grass root-up’ wherein data collection and preliminary analysis of the collected data is performed at local level and integrated regional development vision (development concept) is formulated at the district level. Thus multilevel integration between Plans (between different Local Plans, Local Plans and District Planand between sectors) is achieved avoiding duplication of development proposals formulated atdifferent levels of administrationnamely at Village(Grama)Panchayat/Municipality, Block(intermediate) Panchayat, District Panchayat levels and even State or National level. Over and above the process succeeded in blending technical dimension and local wisdom in the preparation of Development Plans. Integrated DistrictDevelopment Plan, Kollam tries to achieve planned development of the district through optimum utilization of resources, both natural and man made, ensuring conservation of environment. This is a plan for and by all development partners of the district and it specifies the role of each local government in the integrated development of the district. The Plan provides objective and direction toall development sectors meanwhileidentifying their linkages. The IDDP, Kollam envisages a population of 29.36 lakhs for the district by 2021- an addition of 3.50 lakhs to the present population. Developmentneeds of the futurepopulation in each sector - be it physical,economical or social - are addressed in thePlan. The Plan identifies agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries and mining & geology as the potential development sectors of the district. Six development zonesnamely Bio reserve zone,Agro development zone,Agroallied development zone, Specialdevelopment zone, Multi functional zone andAqua bio reserve zone are demarcated with most suitable activities in each zone.The midland area of the district is earmarked as the Agro development zone and the environmentally sensitive regions in and around Ashtamudi kayal and Paravur- Nadayara kayalare designated as Bio reserve zone of theDistrict.Arational distributionof facilities is proposed to be achieved in the district through a well established hierarchy of settlements.Aconnectivity plan ensuring proper connectivity betweensettlements also form part of the Plan. Based on this development structure of the district sectoral details were worked out giving due respect to inter sectoral linkages. Thus the IDDP, Kollam is a comprehensive plan for the development of the district. The Plan encompasses all features of a district plan envisaged by the Constitution. The District Planning Committee of Kollam is proud to be the pioneer in preparing such a Development Plan. The consistent efforts of members of DPC, Kollam, local governments, District Collectors, members of the Special TechnicalAdvisory Group for IDDPand the Department of Town and Country Planning, in particular their Kollam District Office, in making the endeavor a success need to be appreciated. Here is a Plan, not only ‘for the people’ but ‘by the people and of the people’. The success of the Plan depends onhow far people own the Plan and co-operate inimplementation of the Plan.I seek united effortsof central, state andlocal governments as well as the private and corporate sector for realizing the development vision ofIDDP Kollam. Isubmit this comprehensive planbefore the people of Kollam as their meansfor achieving optimum developmentof the district. Adv. K. Somaprasad Chairman District Planning Committee, Kollam Kollam Kerala State << previous << VOL-I pers next >> PREFACE As partof People’s Plan, Kerala succeeded in developing andoperationalising a viable methodologyof decentralized participatory planning. This path-breaking innovation has now been adopted nationally and the Planning Commission recommended an analogous methodology to be followed by all States in the preparation of the XIth FiveYear Plan. In spite of the pioneering nature of decentralized planning, it must be admitted, the development priorities were set and development options chosenon the basis ofperceptions and negotiations amongthe stakeholders under theleadership of elected localgovernments and not on the basis of analysis.To start with it was good enough. Now that decentralization in Kerala has entered the institutionalization phase, time is ripe for upgrading the quality of planning, moving on to analysis of development data and trends, with people and their representatives in the centre stage, assisted by officials and experts, leadingto a vision emerging from a deep understanding of the developmental situation and potential. In this respect, Kollam has conducted an important experiment, crafted patiently and meticulously by a team of top quality professionals from the Town and CountryPlanning Department, in partnership with enlightened political leadershipof Local Governments. Under the leadership of the District PlanningCommittee (DPC) and withthe involvement of allthe Local Governments in the district, officials from the DevelopmentDepartments, co-ordinated by theDistrict Collector in his capacity as the Member Secretary of the DPC,pooled in all available data, filled up gaps through primary collection and analyzed them to study spatial development patterns. Utilizing the techniques of spatial planning and the tools of information technology detailed analysis of the current situation both sectoral and cross-sectoral was carried out and mapped and the trends were projected into the future. The collective spatial patterns of different sectors of development at the district level, shows the

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