Figure 2.10 Organizational set up for preparation of IDDP and LDP

Figure 2.10 Organizational set up for preparation of IDDP and LDP

Source: IDDP 2021

2.4.2 Salient features

Both the LDP and the IDDP are created using a top-down grass-roots-up strategy and a spatial planning approach. The integration of several sectors takes into account the specialities in the social, physical, and economic characteristics of the space that the sectors are merged across. This guarantees that land, the most precious resource in the planning area, is used to its full potential. At the grass roots level, data collecting, analysis, and local level proposals are created, which are later adjusted, if necessary, based on policies derived at a higher level, namely the district level, while developing the IDDP. Simultaneously, higher-level policies are formed, taking into account the proposals made at the lower level (LSGI level). The finance arrangement established for the project of LDP and IDDP preparation reflects the attractiveness of the decentralised planning system. The initiative was conceived as a cooperative endeavour of all the LSGIs in the district by DPC, Kollam. The project received funding from all LSGIs in the Kollam district's tenth and eleventh five-year plans.

The Plan delineated the region into 6 zones which are mentioned below