Merits and Demerits of

Regional Planning
Paper 201, unit -1
By Dr. Bhawana Nigam
Dept of Geography, A N College
Patliputra University, Patna.
The concept
 Regional planning is the process which takes into account the
growth and development of a region taking into account its
natural and human resources.
 The concept has been used after world war II when many
countries became independent after prolong slavery.
 The concept gain more importance when it was realised that
one centralised planning process is not good enough for
different physiographic and human resource of a large country.
 therefore there was a need arises for local, solution based
planning process at regional level for maximum and optimum
result.
 The merits of Regional Planning

 All the regions don not have same habitability

conditions for living therefore regional planning
helps in improving conditions.
 Regional planning is the most desirable way by the
world communities to resolve the critical problems
faced by certain region of the world.
 To solve the problem of regional imbalance due to
increasing population and resource relationship.
Cont….

 Helps in the rapidly increasing population

mobility (due to increase in traffic and
means of communication) and rapidly
changing space relationship.
 It helps to cope with the emerging
regional (imbalance) differences due to
different level of technological and
economical development in the different
parts of the world.
Demerits/ limitations of regional
planning.
 The regional planning has been done for longer period
of time in the future therefore the planner has to wait
for being able to see the region getting transformed.
 Sometimes the pre-requisite for the success of a
special regional plan that may change during the
implementation of a regional plan for example – NCR of
Delhi/ India.
 Peoples expectations that regional planning seeks to
resolve all problems of the concerned region are most
likely to be unsuccessful
Cont….

 There may be conflicting interest of

planners and the political representatives
of the region concerned.
 Comprehensive regional planning by
nature is difficult to conduct. The planner
himself is quite sure of its efforts and for-
sighted plans ; but all the other who are
support staff are rarely committed to the
cause of planning.
Reference

 Google scholar
 National digital library
 Regional planning in India – by Mahesh Chand and Puri
 Regional planning and development – by R C Chandana.

 THANKS.