This book is an outcome of a National Seminar, jointly organised by the Centre for Multi-disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad and Karnataka Panchayat Raj Parishath, Bengaluru, held in 2019. It presents an overview of the decentralized planning in the Indian context with specific references to eight states including Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura and West Bengal. Many of these states have role models in the decentralized planning process that have been studied vastly for replication elsewhere. It narrates the experiences of these states through the ideas of the academicians and researchers who have been working in the field for the past thirty years.