A departmental secretary in Govt of India is reported to have drafted a National Action Plan (NAP) for next 03-04 months. This is said to be so ambitious and wide in its scope that it far exceeds the annual budgetary allocation to the department. As if this were not enough to make the plan unacceptable, it is believed to have projected a combined outlay of Rs 20 lakh crores, about twice of the National Annual Budget. Even if one were to go by 60:40 participation ratio between the centre and states for a national plan, the project looks outlandish and is comparable to the sand castle of a child. This NAP has become a matter of murmuring especially because the department has nothing to do with infrastructure sector; a capital intensive sector.
The plan is jeered at not only because the annual budget of the department concerned is a little more than Rs 1,500 crores, but because the plan has generously allocated central assistance to states running into lakhs of crore rupees from nowhere. Yet, the tragedy is that the plan is ready for submission to the PMO. Will such a plan embarrass it is a multi-billion dollar question? Or will it just scoff at it and dump it into the dustbin?
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A grand plan without wings
By IndianMandarins - 2016-07-26 10:59:50
A departmental secretary in Govt of India is reported to have drafted a National Action Plan (NAP) for next 03-04 months. This is said to be so ambitious and wide in its scope that it far exceeds the annual budgetary allocation to the department. As if this were not enough to make the plan unacceptable, it is believed to have projected a combined outlay of Rs 20 lakh crores, about twice of the National Annual Budget. Even if one were to go by 60:40 participation ratio between the centre and states for a national plan, the project looks outlandish and is comparable to the sand castle of a child. This NAP has become a matter of murmuring especially because the department has nothing to do with infrastructure sector; a capital intensive sector.
The plan is jeered at not only because the annual budget of the department concerned is a little more than Rs 1,500 crores, but because the plan has generously allocated central assistance to states running into lakhs of crore rupees from nowhere. Yet, the tragedy is that the plan is ready for submission to the PMO. Will such a plan embarrass it is a multi-billion dollar question? Or will it just scoff at it and dump it into the dustbin?
