*Research Associate, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Joka, Kolkata, India
**Vice Chancellor, Sidho Kanya Birsha University, West Bengal, India
Online published on 10 February, 2014.
Planning exercise had been done at the central level which resulted in large scale demands of the people unmet. Since independence, the centralized planning has achieved tremendous results in macro economics of this country and yet the rural realities have not been changed drastically towards achieving development. Still people are living in sub-human living conditions in the rural and urban areas. In-order to provide basic facilities, to make use of the facilities to growth and to bring economic activities planning, exercise has to be done at the micro level. This exercise had been thought of many times in independent India. Whether planning institutions could be created at the bottom either at the block level or at the district level.
