Project Planning & Appraisal
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The official GTU curriculum for Project Planning & Appraisal (subject code 3714809) as prescribed for TACP · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 47 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3714809)Unit 1 Project Planning
- Introduction to Projects
- Nature of planning projects
- Project Life Cycle
- Identification of projects
- Project manager roles and responsibilities
- basics of quantitative techniques useful in project planning
- preparation and contents of DPR documents
Unit 2 Project Formulation and Appraisal
- Relationship between projects and planning issues including sectoral policy at: Local
- State and National levels Project appraisal: Market analysis – Macro environment survey
- survey methods
- market characterization
- demand forecasting
- Technical Analysis – Magnitude
- factors of production availability
- implementation schedule
- suitability of the plans
- layout and design
- location of the project
- location analysis
- supporting infrastructure requirements- Capital Budgeting – Estimation of costing of components
- developing over project cost
- Social cost benefit analysis – UNIDO
- ZOPP/GOPP, etc
Unit 3 Project Management and Implementation, and Project Evaluation and
- Monitoring Project characteristics - pitfalls in management of a project
- Techniques of management
- Planning milestones - responsibility charts and principle responsibility
- principles of activity planning
- Project Implementation – methods
- facilitative factors
- Project culture: line management
- steering committee
- role of project manager
- Project Control: cost and time
- quality - ISI standards and its application to Indian context
- Introduction to Project Management Software (Ms Projects) and its usage
- Types of evaluation - concurrent
- ex-ante and ex-post
- Methods of evaluation
- techniques of evaluation
- end results
- Presentation of evaluation findings
- Techniques of Monitoring of Development Works
Unit 4 Regulatory Frameworks Governing Projects
- National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy (2007) - Social Impact mitigation
- National Environmental Policy (2006) – Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Environmental Management Plan (EMP)
- PPP based projects
- guidelines for formulation of project using PPP mode
- standard procedure of formulating tender contract documents for the government and multilateral organizations