Manual for Development Projects - Planning Commission

Chapter-7
Physical progress, as per approved work scope and time schedule.
Staff and equipment usage rate
Managerial performance (timely decisions, efficiency and controls, inventory level, rate of progress, lack
of labour trouble/inter-agencies coordination problems etc).
ii) Secondary
Technical/qualitative parameters, quality control standards, input usage rate, credit supply, extension
services (transfer of knowledge and technology with adoption rate etc.)
Economic parameters (capacity utilization, crop production, intensity, yield, growth rate, etc.)
Social parameters (income distribution index, availability of basic needs, etc.)
Environmental parameters (pollution, climate consideration, etc.)
Institutional Arrangements:
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7.28 There have been several attempts in the past to strengthen the role of the Planning and Development
Division and to institutionalize monitoring and evaluation arrangements at various levels. In 1960, a
Projects Division was established under a separate Secretary, responsible to Deputy Chairman, Planning
Commission, solely for progress monitoring through inspections. This was abolished in 1962. Thereafter,
a Projects Wing was created also in the Planning and Development Division in 1966 almost with the
same aims and objectives as were laid down for the Projects Division but was replaced by a new
organization namely, "National Development Progress Centre (NDPC)" set up on the pattern of the
Malaysian Government Display Centre. The methodology of the NDPC was to present the progress of
development projects through audio-visual aids. This system was tried upto June, 1978 but nothing
tangible was achieved primarily due to the lack of interest at the higher levels.
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