There is a well meaning saying which goes something like this:
"If wishes came true, horses would fly"
"If wishes were horses, fishes would fly" Or "beggars would ride"
Would some enterprising goanetter put the above in proper perspective???
Well, the point I am trying to make here is simply that Averthan has
summed-up the entire exercise when he says
locating a physical industry in a mainly agricultural environment will
create social conditions which will erupt into social and political
unrest.> and what he says is not for the people who are dealing with RP
(TF excluded)
As I have said earlier, the more I read the Interim Report, the more I like
it, because this report is the genuine basis by which a Regional Plan must
be formulated.
(I wish I had the luxury of free time to read it at one shot like an
unputdownable love story novel). In time I shall know why it has been
rejected at all. It has most of the valid inputs to be considered in the
RP-2021. The Interim Report also says very loud and clear that the
formulation of the RP-2021 must be from bottom to top, meaning that the
people in the wards and villages must be taken into confidence, hinting at
the 73rd and 74th amendments. However, I fail to understand how this report
can be rejected on the basis that it does not comply with the 73rd and 74th
amendments if at all this is the grievance. In my humble opinion, for that
to happen, the Legislature must bring in suitable legislations to cover
these amendments for smooth transference or devolution of powers from the
Secretariat to the Municipalities and Panchayats. Besides, these
legislations must be formulated by sane people who qualify to be real
legislators and not rogues, such as we have in the assembly right now, with
smaller rogues in the Municipalities and Panchayats nursing a huge potential
of out-smarting the existing rogues in the assembly and/or teaching them
how best to pocket everything coming their way.
Reminds me of a joke:
Seems an Indian politician goes study touring some foreign land. When his
counterpart entertains him at his posh home, our charlie was mighty
impressed. " How can you afford all this?" he blurted. "His counterpart took
him to the window and pointed out "See that bridge? - Ten per cent" .... he
said.
Our charlie comes home, imerses himself in his politiking and makes sure he
invites his counterpart to visit him while he was still in the hot seat.
Time to reciprocate with a befitting entertaining evening at home, he
proudly ushers his counterpart in his home. Having a posh home was one thing
but this home was definately something his counterpart could digest.
Therefore he blurted ... "How did you make it !Man!?". Our charlie cooly
leads him to the window and pointing at the vast expanse says "See that
flyover?" The counterpart, puzzled, said "Can't see no flyover". Smiling,
our charlie wispers in his ear .... "One hundred per cent"
Averthan must realise that our charlies have such a potential and therefore
the RP-2021 must be such that it fetches them not one hundred per cent, but
double or even trible that amount. Who cares about a silly Interim Report???
It possibly cannot help sprout wings on anything and everything to make
things fly. Or can it???
floriano
goasuraj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Averthan D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goanet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:53 PM
Subject: [Goanet] PLANNING WITHOUT TOOLS
For favour of publication, please.
Averthanus
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PLANNING WITHOUT TOOLS
Averthanus L. D'Souza.
While preparing any plan, the planner should not only know the
materials (resources) with which he is working, but also the tools which
he will require to make his plans meaningful and effective. There is
always a danger of planning a pie in the sky if one does not have a clear
and detailed knowledge of the contents of planning. This is why any
planning process necessarily requires a complete inventory of the
resources
available. In the case of physical planning of a region or of a State, or
even of a town or village, the planner should know what physical,
cultural, environmental and human resources are available before
recommending their allocation to specific purposes, or even before
suggesting their re-allocation. After many years of planning,
professional planners have assumed that the first step in the planning
process requires an assessment of the current availability of resources -
land, water, roads, hills, communications links, health facilities,
schools
and colleges, technical institutes etc. Without such a "land use plan"
there is a danger that
In its Interim Report, the Task Force has explicitly
acknowledged the need for such an inventory to be prepared, village by
village, until a total picture becomes available. ................
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