Multi-Level Planning Single Level Planning 1. Multi-level planning is the planning at different levels like village, block, district, state, and nation. The multi-level planning may be defines planning for a variety of regions which together form a system and subordinate systems’. Single level planning is done at the national level in which the planning process is centralized. 2. The country is divided into smaller territorial units, depending upon the size of the country, the administration, the geographical and the cultural setting of different parts of the country. Lower territorial levels come into picture only at the implementation stage.