B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Institute Level Optional Subject I Development Engineering Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Institute Level Optional Subject I- Development Engineering
Module 1: Introduction to Rural Development Meaning, nature and scope of printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- development; Nature of rural society in India; Hierarchy of settlements; Social, economic and ecological constraints for rural development.
Module 2: Roots of Rural Development in India Rural reconstruction and printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- Sarvodaya programme before independence; Impact of voluntary effort and Sarvodaya Movement on rural development; Constitutional direction, directive principles; Panchayati Raj - beginning of planning and community development; National extension services.
Module 3: Post-Independence rural Development BalwantRai Mehta printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- Committee - three tier system of rural local Government; Need and scope for people’s participation and Panchayati Raj; Ashok Mehta Committee - linkage between Panchayati Raj, participation and rural development.
Module 4: Rural Development Initiatives in Five Year Plans Five Year printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- Plans and Rural Development; Planning process at National, State, Regional and District levels; Planning, development, implementing and monitoring organizations and agencies; Urban and rural interface - integrated approach and local plans; Development initiatives and their convergence; Special component plan and sub-plan for the weaker section; Micro-eco zones; Data base for local planning; Need for decentralized planning; Sustainable rural development.
Module 5: Post 73rd Amendment Scenario 73rd Constitution Amendment printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- Act, including - XI schedule, devolution of powers, functions and finance; Panchayati Raj institutions - organizational linkages; Recent changes in rural local planning; Gram Sabha - revitalized Panchayati Raj; Institutionalization; resource mapping, resource mobilization including social mobilization; Information Technology and rural planning; Need for further amendments.
Module 6: Values and Science and Technology Material development and printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- its values; the challenge of science and technology; Values in planning profession, research and education.
Module 7: Types of Values Psychological values — integrated personality; printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- — mental health; Societal values the modern search for a good society; justice, democracy, rule of law, values in the Indian constitution; Aesthetic values — perception and enjoyment of beauty; Moral and ethical values; nature of moral judgment; Spiritual values; different concepts; secular spirituality; Relative and absolute values; Human values— humanism and human values; human rights; human values as freedom, creativity, love and wisdom.
Module 8: Ethics Canons of ethics; ethics of virtue; ethics of duty; ethics of printed in the syllabus as Module Contents
- responsibility; Work ethics; Professional ethics; Ethics in planning profession, research and education
Reference
- 1 ITPI, Village Planning and Rural Development, ITPI, New Delhi
- 2 Thooyavan, K.R. Human Settlements: A 2005 MA Publication, Chennai
- 3 GoI, Constitution (73rdGoI, New Delhi Amendment) Act, GoI, New Delhi
- 4 Planning Commission, Five Year Plans, Planning Commission
- 5 Planning Commission, Manual of Integrated District Planning, 2006, Planning Commission New Delhi
- 6 Planning Guide to Beginners
- 7 Weaver, R.C., The Urban Complex, Doubleday.
- 8 Farmer, W.P. et al, Ethics in Planning, American Planning Association, Washington.
- 9 How, E., Normative Ethics in Planning, Journal of Planning Literature, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 123-150.
- 10 Watson, V. , Conflicting Rationalities: -- Implications for Planning Theory and Ethics, Planning Theory and Practice, Vol. 4, No.4, pp.395 –
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Chemical Engineering) under R-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Modules are numbered in sequence here; in the syllabus itself, Module 1 is printed as Module Contents; Module 2 is printed as Module Contents; Module 3 is printed as Module Contents; Module 4 is printed as Module Contents; Module 5 is printed as Module Contents; Module 6 is printed as Module Contents; Module 7 is printed as Module Contents; Module 8 is printed as Module Contents. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
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