Subject(s): Rural development -- Migration -- Community Development -- Physical Planning -- Rural centre, regional approach -- General theories of development and underdevelopment, economic growth theories, dualism and theories of modernization, dependency models, basic needs, ecological models -- Regional development theory, industrial development -- Agriculture and national economy, poverty, migration and rural development -- Spatial organization and central places, Von Thunen, Christaller's models, Losch networks, Galpin's market areas, Central place theory and delineation of functional regions, market system and their development, centre hierarchy -- Planning procedures and techniques : Decision making process, top-down and bottom-up approach, regional planning in practice, integrated area development, project development, regionalization and decentralization, spatial systems and development strategies -- Sectoral planning : Water supply and sanitation, rural water supply, rural electrification,ESCAP countries, investment, transport and communication, road construction, health and nutrition, man power training, health care, education, food production and management, education, economic services,agricultural research, credit and banking, income distribution, consumer goods and services, co-operatives, rural industrialization, spatial consideration, rural industries, appropriate technologies, industrial development authority, rural industrialization programmes -- Community development and physical planning : Community development and labour intensive work programmes, physical planning of rural centres, regional considerations and polices, settlement and linkage patterns, environmental conditions, land use and capability, farm and scheme size, planning standards and norms, water supply , sewerage and garbage disposal, economic services, land use budgets, housing, layout of settlements, general layouts of development schemens, schematic layout of settlement units, farming villages and service centres, central service and residential areas, house plots and houses, building bye-laws for rural areas