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Critically examine the relevance of development planning in India.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Development planning is the deliberate use of state authority to fix social and economic priorities in advance, so that change is directed rather than left to market drift. The question is unusually live in India: the Planning Commission gave way to NITI Aayog in 2015 and the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-17) was the last,…

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  • The case for continuing relevance
  • The critique: why planning is held to be obsolete
  • Conclusion

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