What is it that our Planning commission lacks ??

Our planning commission is functioning with some sort of lacuna and it needs to plan effectively to harvest the productivity in right time with proper vision.

Thanks for the referral Mr.Mathew Ji.

Sorry, I mispelt the name Mahalnobis as Mahanoblis, some books use my version. I found out that it is he who discovered the Chi-squared test in comparing cross sectional data in statistics. Thanks Mr. Murli for correcting.

Mr. Srinivas, thanks well said, one thing one should not dellude is that economics is a science which we too had a hand in developing around the age of Budha probably 1500 BC, later on its development was completed in the West. So borrowing their ideas is the only way out, our own modern ideas devoid of scale may not be wise. That doesn't mean they are doing it right, they simply as I said, conjuring up ideas that are not scientific or borrowed. So they keep slowing down the economy at the peril of the people. Nice that such a high ranking official like you can speak so openly. Thanks.

In Indian democracy people have no power except to elect their representatives.  Even their judgement is also being hijacked by the political parties and leaders.  They are expected to represent the voice of the people instead they are squeezing the voice of their masters and busy on how to gain from the position. The Govt. babus (civil servants) the other power block of the country never try to know the pains of the people.  They are busy in holding and attending the meetings and taking decisions on behalf of the Govt. which lacks the ground reality.  Planning Commission is one such Govt. body filled with this kind of babus.  They are very much interested to tour different countries in the name of study the development elsewhere instead of touring the nook and corners of this land.  Govts. spend crores of money for this tours and other unnecessary studies.  Our constitution, our planning, our law and every thing are borrowed ideas from other countries.  As long as the aspirations and needs of the people of the land are not taken into consideration, there tend to be loopholes in any kind of developmental activity.  Govts. should focus on it.  As Mr. Suryanarayana Murty told our planning Commissions lacks planning.

something intresting to Mr.Mattew calculation

Mr. Murli, Mahanoblis as we know had no supervised training in Economics, he was a mathematics phd student at Cambridge when on independence Nehruji was searching for filling top positions found Mahanoblis and requested him to lead our planning. Mahanoblis convyed the situation that he had no experience in planning. On Nehrus insistence he accepted and subsequently since they had no idea what planning was they searched around and found Russia had planning and Mahanoblis was sent there to learn from experience what planning is. I think he went and learned something like the five year plan came back and the rest I think was from work came by the way not according to any Economic foundations. So these errors tend to exist in our environment and we probably has to live with it until somone profesionally trained can come in and create a new effective model.

We are continuing with "Mahalanobis" model!  A lot can be done to improve the situation.  Evolving a new system means "effort"!  They rely on data what their people collect, collate and present.  Members and Advisors of the Planning Commission should spend most of their time in the field, travelling nook and corner of the country, before making any policy!  Most of the time they are in the conference rooms, eliciting opinions from the theoreticians and not from the cross-section of society!

In my opinion, our Planning Commission lacks planning. Any dissenting voice pl ?