Strategy for public participation in planning : an appraisal of the decentralized administrative and institutional framework in Sri Lanka

The objective of t h i s study is to develop a strategy f o r public participation in planning with specific reference t o the institutional and administrative framework of the decentralized structure of administration in view of the increasingly important role currently attached to public participation in achieving planned development. Development in its modern meaning embraces the fulfillment of the aspirations of the people and the importance of public paretic impaction in this context becomes apparent. This study examines the rationale for planning from below as against the conventional paternalistic it is t tendencies of "citizen incompetence.