In the context of Indian villages, the resources falling under CPR category include community pastures, community forests and wastelands, common dumping and threshing grounds, watershed drain ages, village ponds, rivers/rivulets as well as their banks and beds (Gowda and Savadatti, 2004). Unlike open access resources where people’s use is on a “free rider” basis with no recognized property rights, in CPRs accessibility is exclusive with only the identified community having access to it and not others. In this sense,the resources share two broad characteristics. First, they are so large that any attempt to exclude potential beneficiaries from using them would be costly. Second, the supply of such resources is limited and consumption by one user reduces their availability to others. It is these two characteristics that necessitate collective efforts on the part of the beneficiaries for managing the resource. A large majority of over 75 billion rural population of India are dependent on CPRs for their livelihood (Pradhan and Patra, 2011) and yet the issue of land use planning in CPRs has remained neglected mainly due tothe protected nature of these resources, where no change of land use is possible (as in case of forest), or the possibility of no modifications in its characteristic (as in case of village ponds, common grazing land). In practice every society has its own local level sys-tems of resource management, which are based on the knowledge and experience of the resource users themselves (Adhikari, 2004).Land use planning issues are, however, very relevant for improve dutilization of the CPR’s for livelihood security. As a matter of fact,some of these CPR’s play a very important role in land use decisions for their beneficiaries. Systematic evaluation of CPR’s and their scientific utilization can help in significantly improving the livelihood of the inhabitants, especially in backward areas.