Commentary
A Plan Without A Vision Cannot Deliver
Manohar Seetharam
Oct 01, 2011, 12:49 AM | Updated Apr 29, 2016, 02:53 PM IST
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The Planning Commission of India recently released it's approach paper to the 12th plan (2012-2017) titled "Faster, Sustainable and More Inclusive Growth". Though lacking in vision and imagination the paper provides an opportunity and the material for others to evaluate the goals and outcomes of our previous plan. It is neither forthright in acknowledging the past mistakes and contradictions nor is it bold in determining our priorities. Still, the paper manages to sensitize us to the magnitude of challenges India will have to face in the coming decade.
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Author is an under-graduate from IIT Madras with more than a decade of experience in Indian R&D centres of Global MNCs.
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