B.E. (Biomedical Engineering) Development Engineering Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the Fourth Year Biomedical Rev 2019 C Scheme syllabus under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. The University has not yet published an NEP 2020 syllabus above Semester IV for this branch, and this is the scheme its examinations are set on.
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Syllabus for Development Engineering
Module 1: Introduction to Rural Development:
- Meaning, nature and scope of development; Nature of rural society in India; Hierarchy of settlements; Social, economic and ecological constraints for rural development Roots of Rural Development in India Rural reconstruction and 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 2: Post-Independence Rural Development:
- Balwant Rai Mehta 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 3: Rural Development Initiatives in Five Year Plans:
- Five Year 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 4: Post 73rd Amendment Scenario: 73rd Constitution Amendment 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 5: Values and Science and Technology Material development and its values; the challenge of science and technology; Values in planning profession, research and education.
- Types of Values Psychological values — integrated personality; 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 6
- Ethics: Canons of ethics; ethics of virtue; ethics of duty; ethics of responsibility; Work ethics; Professional ethics; Ethics in planning profession, research and education
References
- 1 ITPI, Village Planning and Rural Development, ITPI, New Delhi
- 2 Thooyavan, K.R. Human Settlements: A 2005 MA Publication, Chennai
- 3 GoI, Constitution (73rd GoI, 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 – 407
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Biomedical Engineering) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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