Regional Planning for Large Metropolitan Cities-A Case Study of the National Capital Region

The objectives, strategies, policies and development programmes of the Draft Regional Plan for the National Capital Region are analysed in this paper. The author offers suggestions for making the plan more effective and acceptable for financing. In particular, he underscore the need for (i) correcting the ommission of programmes for the urban poor and of analysis of the relationship between the NCR Plan and the Perspective Plan for Delhi; and (ii) avoiding a wide gap between the cost of the plan and the resources that are likely to ae available for its implementation.