Subject(s): Rural development -- Industrial development -- Rural situation in India, integrated rural development, rational approach to rural development -- Theories in regional planning and their application to integrated rural planning - Central place theory, theory of growth poles, Hirschman's hypothesis of the geographical incidence and transmission of economic development, Mydal's theory of geographical concentration through circular and cumulative causation , theory of geographical diffusion of innovations , agricultural location theory, theory of industrial location, theoretical approach to integrated rural planning, integrated rural planning in india,physical targets and financial outlays- possibilities for plan implementation -- Characteristics of study area and general settlement plan, planning for resource development - agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, industrial development -- Planning for an optimum infrastructure development : transport, electricity, water supply -- planning for social facilities : Education, health, housing, manpower planning, cartographic techniques