Evaluating of planning process and regionalimpacts national construction plan(Case study ;Kārūn-3 Dam)

Main efforts for executing national prosperity and construction plans includes,programming, budget securing, operation& monitoring; are usually handled bygovernmental department. Because of national targets and necessity of executing basicprograms with regard to strategic action plans in national development; large scale andnational projects should be programmed by government.For this point of view and up to down programming procedure in performingsuch plan, causes enormous change in local, regional and also national geographicalboundrise.Dam constructing is one of the government development program in order toprovide water for drinking and agriculture. These projects have many environmental,economical and social impact in local scale.In iran kārūn- 3 dam plan ,generates electricity, control flood water in upper basinyield and also provide fresh water for agriculture targets. The plan fesibility studybegan in 1961 and was exploited in 2003.The following paper not only evaluates Kārūn-3 dam planning process with dueattention to planning theory, but also make clear the project impact in regional andlocal scales.