Five Year Plan

Best of BS Opinion: A question of spirit, Reforming judiciary & more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

A question of spirit

Busy civil servants preparing a five-year plan for the next government raises questions about convention

Back to the public sector?

Of the Rs 102 trillion to be deployed through to FY25, 78 per cent is to be mobilised by the public sector and 22 per cent by the private sector.

Indian economy had long stopped following the planned model of growth

With the talk of merging of plan and non-plan expenditure, the need for a plan document already vanished and that will be a reality come FY18

Agri sector grows by 1.6% in first 4 years of 12th Five Year Plan

The growth fell well short of the targeted 4% due to lower production