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NITI Aayog's 'New India @75' strategy: Another one for the shelf?

The real problem with many such papers is their execution. Words are easy to say, but sometimes they tend to be divorced from reality

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The RSS-backed trade union said that NITI Aayog's proposal to create a new category of “fixed term employment” in the organised sector will destroy quality jobs.

Madan Sabnavis
Strategy documents like our Plans and other vision documents have a lot of good statements. In fact, even political manifestoes have begun to have similar contentof late. The real problem is execution. Words are easy to say, but they tend to be divorced from reality. This is why several great initiatives taken by the government, such as UDAY and Indradhanush, though encouraging in scope and spirit, have not delivered much. Now when the NITI Ayog speaks of a strategy for New India @75,  one should take it in the right spirit.

The strategy document talks of 8 per cent growth,