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mandate alongside development through planning, the following lessons seem to have emerged from our past experi- ences: 1. Markets, left to themselves, do not care about development or inclusive growth, both of which are necessary to meet the Constitutional mandates set out in the Indian Constitution. 2. Markets are amenable to manipulation or distortions in practice which has often led economies to near collapse situations i.e. the impacts of Enron and Subprime crisis to United States and the European economies are the classic case to point. 3. The myopic vision of each Ministry or departments to its own segment of its overall constitutional mandate or the common minimum programme has often led to diffi culties in balancing the priorities amongst the most important social issues like health care, water, and education vis-a- vise other objectives like better urban planning in infrastructure — although both impact the other in more than one way. 4. Planning in itself is a distinct and independent area of governance necessary to attain the constitutional mandate as discussed above and the challenges of the developed economies and as such can not be merged into implementation and left to respective departments or local bodies. 5. Formation of Planning policies for achieving the growth and the constitutional mandate is a very specialized responsibility and therefore needs a dedicated and wholesome approach. It was planning that rescued America from the Great Depression. It was the Marshall Plan that rebuilt the completely devastated economies of Western Europe after Second World War. Similarly, it was the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Japanese version of the Planning Commission that ‘planned’ and scripted the spectacular resurgence of Japan as a global economic power from the debris of Second World War. South Korea was a harshly exploited colony of Japan for the fi rst-half of the 20th century. Since late 1950s, it was the ‘planned’ encouragement and incentives given to chaebols like Samsung and LG that made South Korea a developed nation and join the fabled G-8 club as a paid-up member. And, it is systematic and effective ‘planning’ that has transformed country like China from a pathetically poor agrarian economy during the 1970s to a global economic powerhouse that now boldly challenges the formidable might and clout of the United States. With all the above lessons, some very T RANSFORMATIVE PLANNING old, some from recent past the Planning Commission which was set up in 1950 has been discharging the functions of planning the various Five year plans of the Government of India, the various issues concerning budget allocation of scarce resources of amongst the growth and development needs and has been assisting in setting out the road map and structure of the new emerging development opportunities particularly the Public Private Participation of development and growth. The question isn’t whether the Planning Commission should be an advisory and a guiding light or even whether it should be allowed in the decision making rules in various departments to oversee and ensure compliance of either the various departmental projects of India or even the recommendations of the Planning Commission of India. The question is whether our MPs, our television anchors and our RTI activists are asking the commission enough questions! References and Additional Thinking • Public Administration Law, M.P. Jain, Universal Publication 1999, Vol.2. Edition-3; • N.C. Jain Report on Restructuring of Planning Commission on 26.06.2000; • www.fi nancialexpress.com; • Handbook of Public Administration- Jack Robin, Gerarld Miler; • Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Interview with India Knowledge@ Wharton, Published November 1, 2007; (The views expressed in the write-up are personal and do not reflect the offi cial policy or position of the organization.) THE INDIA ECONOMY REVIEW 93
P LANNING P ARADIGM A Tale of Two Countries: India and Malaysia Asymmetry in the approaches in planning the economic policies and their consequences — a comparative study Amir Ullah Khan Economist, The India Development Foundation and Edith Cowan University Tunku Abdur Rehman was born three years after Jawaharlal Nehru, in a rich family, and in 1925 went to Cambridge to study law. Racial discrimination there made him resolve to fi ght for independence. Tunku headed the Alliance party, won elections in 1955 and in 1957 persuaded the British to give up and make Malaysia a free country. Ten years after Jawaharlal Nehru did the same in India, Tunku became the fi rst Prime Minister of free Malaysia. And remained Prime Minister till 1970 having won three straight elections. While Nehru gave to his country a Tryst with destiny, Tunku declared "Merdeka" (independence). Both countries initiated a planning process, and Malaysia's Economic Planning Unit became powerful and infl uential. The New Economic Policy was launched in 1969, with the state announcing large scale reservations for the local Malay Muslim population referred to as the Bhumiputras. The Malays were agriculturists, the Chinese dominated industry 94 THE IIPM THINK TANK
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