NEW DELHI- Shoring Up the Plan

NEW DELHI Shoring Up the Plan THE full meeting of the Planning Commission on October 7 was a somewhat laborious exercise in underpinning the Fourth Plan with a measure of commitment on the part of the govern- mental and political leadership and in investing the Planning Commission with at least a semblance of authority in the execution of the Plan, The results of the forthright bid made by the members of the Commission in these directions will be known only in the coming; months. The meeting only brought into the open the prevailing disconcerting situation in Plan implementation.