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Reorienting

People’s

Planning in K.N. Harilal

Member - Planning Board
We are currently in the Silver Jubilee
Kerala year of the People’s Campaign for

Participatory Planning in Kerala.
The last five years have been quite
remarkable in addressing the lessons
learnt from the first two decades.

The first year of the 13th Plan to simplify the procedures so that 1,147 Local Governments in the
witnessed some major changes undue delays can be avoided. The State could complete the process
in the guidelines for formulation introduction of new guidelines, of formulation of Annual Plans for
and implementation of the Local which simplified the procedures, the year 2018-19 before April 1,
Government Plans. An important resulted in the early submission of 2018, leaving a full year, for Plan
objective of the new guidelines was Plans. implementation. Early start of the

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