Planning in the 20th Century and Beyond: India's Planning Commission and the NITI Aayog

ISBN-13: 9781108494625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 348 str.

Santosh Mehrotra (Jawaharlal Nehru University);Sylvie Guichard (Université de Genève)

Opis

The Planning Commission played a crucial role in the type of development that India followed after independence. However, even though most economic analyses of India mention the five-year plans, the Planning Commission as an institution remains little studied. This is why this book proposes to look backward, examining the history of the idea of planning and the history and experience of planning in India. It also looks forward, trying to evaluate, beyond ideologies, which role the practice of planning has and should have in contemporary India. It then proposes that the NITI Aayog, the think tank founded on 1st January 2015 after the demise of the Planning Commission, could learn from this experience. This book addresses three leading questions: why plan economic development? How to plan? And what exactly can/should be planned? These questions are interrelated and the contributors of this volume, each with their own focus, propose elements of replies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Sylvie Guichard and Santosh Mehrotra; Part I. Origins: Ideas and Ideology: 2. A brief history of studying the Planning Commission Sylvie Guichard; 3. The long road to Indian economic planning Niranjan Rajadhyaksha; 4. Ideas and origins of the Planning Commission in India Shruti Rajagopalan; Part II. Changes and Continuity: Development and Adaptation of Planning and the Planning Commission: 5. The Planning Commission and education Ratna Sudarshan; 6. India's agricultural challenges: looking back and looking ahead Ramesh Chand; 7. Economic planning after economic liberalization: between Planning Commission and think tank NITI, 1991–2015 Baldev Raj Nayar; 8. Yojana Bhawan: obiter dictum Dilip M. Nachane; 9. On a revived planning commission Y. K. Alagh; Part III. Planning beyond the Planning Commission?: 10. Make in India Bibek Debroy and Dhiraj Nayyar; 11. Manufacturing: the cornerstone of a planning strategy for the 21st century Santosh Mehrotra; 12. Fiscal planning to sustain growth and poverty reduction Santosh Mehrotra; 13. Plan, but do not over-plan: lessons for NITI Aayog Pronab Sen; 14. Conclusion: why does India need a central planning institution in the 21st century? Santosh Mehrotra.