Deparment of Planning, Uttarakhand is an important department of the government in terms of development of state.
This department makes the development plan, start and overview its implementation.
Uttarakhand State Planning Department Objectives
- Keep a watch on economic trends, demand projections, development and utilization of capacities, especially the production trends, policies, incentives and disincentives and regulatory mechanisms relevant to the country as a whole;
- Assisting development departments and lower level planning and development agencies in decision making by projecting trends, identifying constraints, undertaking economic analysis for formulating a policy frame-work and listing priorities from time to time;
- Monitoring, concurrent appraisal and evaluation of individual projects/programmes/schemes.
- Assessing institutional and organizational potentials and constraints, specially from the point of view of delivery of services and resources to the poorer and unorganized sections of society;
- Conducting diagnostic/explanatory studies and pre-testing new technologies as well as new programmes through pilot projects;
- Facilitating formulation and appraisal of projects;
- Developing techniques and procedures for the continuous monitoring of intra-state imbalances and providing methodological and logistic support for planning at the regional, district and block levels;
- Organizing training of officers concerned with programme implementation and regional planning.
- Networking with various organization, financial institutions and experts and social scientists.
