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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 12th plan yet to be officially printed, but Panel wants states to be ready for mid-term appraisals -Vikas Dhoot

12th plan yet to be officially printed, but Panel wants states to be ready for mid-term appraisals -Vikas Dhoot

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published Published on Jul 10, 2013   modified Modified on Jul 10, 2013
-The Economic Times


NEW DELHI: India's much-delayed Twelfth Five-Year Plan is yet to be officially printed, but the Planning Commission has already begun asking states and ministries to start gearing up for the mid-term appraisals for this Plan period, leaving most of them bewildered.

This Five-Year Plan started in April 2012, but the strategy document for the Plan was finalised and approved by National Development Council in late December that year - meaning nine months or 15% of the Plan period was lost already.

In May this year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrote out the foreword for the Plan document, which ET learns was recently sent to the printing press. Almost around the same time, the Commission has initiated the mid-term appraisal process and has conveyed this to all state governments during discussions on their annual plans for 2013-14.

"Ministries have had no clarity on their budgets for one year and state governments are surprised that the appraisal process has already begun," said a senior government official involved with the process.

"A couple of state planning board chiefs have even said that the country has lost a year due to the Centre's lax approach to the Plan and pointed out that the strategy document was meant to achieve results and shouldn't be reduced to an academic exercise," he added.

Even central ministries are not amused. "The Planning Commission can appraise our performance any time they want, but they should at least give us time to implement the Plan," said a senior labour ministry official.

"The schemes run by the Commission and the finance ministry should also be subjected to similar scrutiny," he stressed, pointing to schemes like the '50th Year Initiative for Planning' whose funds are used to pay law firms for advice on infrastructure matters.

However, an official involved with perspective planning for over a decade said that a Plan's mid-term appraisal is usually kicked off in the second year.

"The appraisal usually has to start by the September of the second year so that it can be completed in the third year, leaving enough time for course corrections," he said.


The Economic Times, 10 July, 2013, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/12th-plan-yet-to-be-officially-printed-but-panel-wants-states-to-be-ready-for-mid-term-appraisals/articleshow


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