Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy
Ideas of India
Plan Consciousness
There's this idealism that is certainly prevalent in certain parts of the government. But apart from this idealism, there's also, I think, some real politics going on. There's a recognition of extremely low state capacity. And so you have people contributing to laying embankments, stooling roads, building dispensaries and hospitals without getting any payment. That's part of this plan consciousness. The congress party realizes that if it wants to be popular in the public's eye, fusing itself to development programs,. just like in 2022 in the 1950s was good way of doing it.
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