Interim Report on Machinery for Planning

Abstract

The terms of reference of the Administrative Reforms Commission relating to the Machinery for Planning arc as follows: - Planning organisations and procedures at the Centre and in the States and the relationship of the Planning Commission at the Centre and Planning agencies in the States with other agencies. 2. The Commission appointed a Study Team under the Chairmanship of Shri R. R. Morarka to ascertain facts, locate principal problem areas, examine solutions for the problems, and make recommendations for the consideration of the Administrative Reforms Commission. The Study Team has submitted an interim report dealing with the re-organisation of the Planning Commission leaving the rest of the terms of reference to be covered by a final report. We are grateful to the Team for its report, a copy of which is .enclosed. Planning has now come to be associated so closely and intimately with the various activities of Government and is so inextricably connected with almost every other term of reference of the Commission particularly the machinery of Government and Centre-State relationship that we would have preferred to deal with the entire subject in a comprehensive and integrated manner in our final report. It happens, however, that Government have been called upon to deal with the reconstitution of the Planning Commission owing to the fortuitous or coincidental circumstances of some resignations or expiry of term of almost all the members of the Commission.