Future of the Planning Commission

Arthagnani It is a measure of the decline of the Planning Commission that nobody in the country, the Government included, has taken the Fourth Plan seriously. The outlay in the first year of the Plan and that proposed for the second year have had very little to do with the programmes included in the Plan; the rate and pattern of licensing of industries even less. Doubts have been raised about the feasibility of the Plan and even the technical consistency of its targets has been questioned.