Planning in India
Planning in India
RICHARD S. ECKAUS
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
introduction
Indian planning is an open process. Much of the controversy and the debates that accompany the preparation of the plans are public. The initial aggregate calculations and assumptions are either explicitly stated or readily deducible, and the makers of the plans are not only sensitive but responsive to criticism and suggestions from a wide variety of na-
tional and international sources. From original formulation through successive modifications to parliamentary presentation, plan making in India has evolved as a responsive democratic political process.
NOTE: An unusually large group of people have made major contributions to the research on which this paper is based, so much so, in fact, that the author feels be should be regarded as the rap porteur of a joint effort, especially with respect to the formulation of the model described. Yet, each individual might present and evaluate the results differently; so no one but the author is responsible for the opinions of this paper and any errors which it might contain. Credit for whatever merit there may be is shared with Professor S. Chakravarty of the Delhi School of Economics, Professor Louis Lefeber of Brandeis University, who participated in the original version of this paper, and Dr. Kirit Parikh, research associate of the Center for International Studies, M.I.T. The author is also indebted to Professors Max Millikan and P. N. Rosenstein-Rodan of
M.I.T. Assistance has been provided by Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, Dr. T.
Krishnam, Dr. Jayant Shah, and T. Weisskopf which has gone far beyond doing calculations to order, and the author regards them as having been close associates. Professor Nino Andreatta of the University of Bologna; Dr. Ashish
Chakravarti, Indian Statistical Institute; James A. Mirrlees, Cambridge University;
and Dr. Per Sevaldson of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Oslo, Norway, were instrumental
RICHARD S. ECKAUS
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
introduction
Indian planning is an open process. Much of the controversy and the debates that accompany the preparation of the plans are public. The initial aggregate calculations and assumptions are either explicitly stated or readily deducible, and the makers of the plans are not only sensitive but responsive to criticism and suggestions from a wide variety of na-
tional and international sources. From original formulation through successive modifications to parliamentary presentation, plan making in India has evolved as a responsive democratic political process.
NOTE: An unusually large group of people have made major contributions to the research on which this paper is based, so much so, in fact, that the author feels be should be regarded as the rap porteur of a joint effort, especially with respect to the formulation of the model described. Yet, each individual might present and evaluate the results differently; so no one but the author is responsible for the opinions of this paper and any errors which it might contain. Credit for whatever merit there may be is shared with Professor S. Chakravarty of the Delhi School of Economics, Professor Louis Lefeber of Brandeis University, who participated in the original version of this paper, and Dr. Kirit Parikh, research associate of the Center for International Studies, M.I.T. The author is also indebted to Professors Max Millikan and P. N. Rosenstein-Rodan of
M.I.T. Assistance has been provided by Mrinal Datta-Chaudhuri, Dr. T.
Krishnam, Dr. Jayant Shah, and T. Weisskopf which has gone far beyond doing calculations to order, and the author regards them as having been close associates. Professor Nino Andreatta of the University of Bologna; Dr. Ashish
Chakravarti, Indian Statistical Institute; James A. Mirrlees, Cambridge University;
and Dr. Per Sevaldson of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Oslo, Norway, were instrumental