Regional Divisions of India ·A Cartographic Analysis
CENSUS OF INDIA REGIONAL DIVISIONS OF INDIA ·A CARTOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OCCASIONAL PAPERS SERIES - I VOLUME -XII MAHARASHTRA Planning & SupervIsIon B. K. ROY, M. A" Ph D. Deputy Registrar General (Map) General Direction & Editmg VIJA Y S. VERMA of the Indian Administrative Service Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India 2 ~ A, Mansingh Road New Delhi Maps included In this volume are based upon Survey of India map with the permission of the Surveyor General of India The boundary of Meghalaya shown on the map of India is as interpreted from the North-eastern areas (Reorganisation) Act, 1971, but has yet to be venfied (applicable to India map only) The territorial waters of India extend into the sea to a distance of twelve nautical miles measured from the appropnate base line (applicable to India map only) © Government of India COPYright 1988 FOREWORD Expenence has taught us that planning nas to be related to the situation in the field in order to better respond to local aspirations and for better utilization of local resources. A lot of planning has, of necessity, to be for larger areas, encompassing an agglomeration of administrative Units. Even such macro planning has, In order to be realistic, to be cognisant of the realities at the micro level. Correspondingly, such plans for bigger areas and involVing larger outlays have also to be administered from a suitably high threshold of administrative authority and by a wide network of .adminlstrative hierarchy. Nevertheless, there is a whole corpus of activities which can be and are, In fact, better planned, conducted and financed at the lower or local levels I think the essence of decentralized planning, which for operational convenience is, essentially, District level planning, I.e.
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