Subject(s): Regional planning. -- Micro-level planning -- IRDP -- Non-Government Agencies -- Micro level planning rationale and requirements, decentralisation of planning in India, emerging patterns in different district levels, planning process for IRDP, planning process for the NREP and RLEGP, organisation for decentralised planning- district planning board -- Linkage and coordination- multiplicity of programmes and agencies and need for coordination, integrated planning, role of non-government agencies and public, NGOs, banks and credit planning, methodology and grass roots planning, data and information