Socio Economic Planning
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Papers Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesSocio Economic Planning Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Socio Economic Planning (subject code 3714810) as prescribed for TACP · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 41 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 (3714810)Unit 1 Nature and Scope of Sociology
- Sociological concepts and methods
- man and environment relationships
- Socio-cultural profile of Indian society and urban transformation
- Tradition and modernity in the context of urban and rural settlements
- Issues related to caste, age, sex, gender
- health safety, and marginalized groups
- resettlement and rehabilitation due to compulsory land acquisition
Unit 2 Community and Settlements
- Social problems of slums and squatters communities
- urban and rural social transformation and their impact on social life
- Crimes in urban areas and their spatial planning implications
- social structure and spatial planning
- Role of socio-cultural aspects on growth patterns of city and neighbourhood communities
- Social planning and policy, and community participation
- Marginalization and concepts of inclusive planning, and gender concerns in planning
- Settlement Policy: National Commission on Urbanization
- Rural Habitat Policy and experiences from developing countries regarding settlement structure
- growth and spatial distribution
Unit 3 Elements of Micro and Macro Economics
- Concepts of demand
- elasticity and consumer markets
- concept of revenue costs
- Economies of scale
- economic and social costs
- production and factor market
- Different market structures and price determination
- market failures
- cost-benefit analysis
- public sector pricing
- Determinants of national income
- capital budgeting
- risk and uncertainty, and long-term investment planning
Unit 4 Development Economics and Lessons from Indian Experiences 8 15
- Economic growth and development
- quality of life
- Human development index
- poverty and income distribution
- employment and livelihood
- Economic principles in land use planning
- Policies and strategies in economic planning
- balanced versus unbalanced growth
- public sector dominance
- changing economic policies
- implications on land
Study on Android App:
