Report of The Working Group on Evaluation in the States

Abstract

At a meeting of the State Planning Secretaries with the Planning Commission on November 10, 1963, Prof. V. K. R. V. Rao referred to the diversity in the approach to evaluation found in the States which had instituted a machinery for undertaking evaluation work. At his instance, the role, the objective and the arrangements suitable for evaluation in the States were taken up for further discussion with the State Planning Secretaries at a special meeting on November 11, 1963. Emphasizing evaluation as an integral instrument of planning and recognizing the need for strengthening evaluation activities and arrangements in the States, the meeting recommended, among other things, that a small Working Group should be set up to examine the whole question of evaluation machinery in the States and do some thinking on the basic issues bearing on the organizational set-up and the content of evaluation.