A4
Hard-cover
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2004
Pages: 957
ISBN: 8171883508
INR 1295
plus
Background Papers
Introduction
S. P. Gupta
The report on “India: Vision 2020” reproduced in Part One of this volume, has been the outcome of many detailed deliberations among all the Committee members comprising selected top scholars and experts in their respective fields under my chairmanship. The Committee had been constituted by the Planning Commission, Government of India in the year 2000 as a part of the exercise on Tenth Plan to develop a long-term twenty year vision for helping to work out a mediumterm programme for India’s development strategy. The Committee took more than two years to have an integrated and consistent view of how the countrymen would like to see India in the year 2020. The Committee’s deliberations were further enriched by nearly 20 written contributions received from among the Committee members. The contributors represent a wide spectrum of the society and from different parts of India.
In the final report, we have not necessarily adopted and accepted all the views and assessments of each individual author. But an integrated view is taken from a broad consensus emerging from the views of the different Members. These papers provided broad guidelines and pointers to formulate our understanding of Vision for India in 2020 and providing often detailed rationales for taking these views. Indeed in preparing the final report we have benefitted enormously from the inputs received from the background papers. The Report, however, is unable to do full justice to the rich and detailed analysis contained in the various papers. The final report also draws valuable inputs from experts within and outside the Planning Commission. The Committee gained from the vision of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s book “India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium”.
Given the complexity and vast scope of research and issues covered by individual papers, it is now felt that the papers will be a sources of great ‘knowledge’ value on their own, over and above their contribution to the final report on India Vision 2020. This prompted us to put together a volume with select background papers (with necessary editing) submitted to the Planning Commission for the India Vision 2020. Needless to mention, the view presented in these papers are that of the authors and not necessarily that of the Planning Commission.
Planning Commission, Government of India
Manas Bhattacharyya
Deputy Director General (Finance),
Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communi-
cation and IT, Government of India, New Delhi.
Ashish Bose
Former Professor, Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi.
P. Chaturvedi
Chairman, The Institute of Engineering,
New Delhi.
Sarala Gopalan
Former Secretary to Government of India, Women and
Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource
Development, New Delhi.
M.C. Gupta
Former Director, Indian Institute of Public Administration,
New Delhi.
Anwar-ul-Hoda
Professor, Indian Council for Research on International
Economic Relations (ICRIER), Delhi.
P.V. Indiresan
Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi;
Former Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai)
Ramaswamy R. Iyer
Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
Garry Jacobs
The Mother’s Service Society, Pondicherry.
Mahesh Kapoor
Former Consultant, The World Bank, New Delhi.
G.N. Kathpalia
Alternative Futures : Development Research and
Communication Group, New Delhi.
Nagesh Kumar
Director General, Research and Information System for the
Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi.
Amitabh Kundu
Professor, Centre for Studies in Regional Development,
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
P.N. Mari Bhat
Professor, Population Research Centre,
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.
RK. Pachauri
Director General,
Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), New Delhi.
V.A. Pai Panandiker
Former Director, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
V.R. Panchamukhi
Chairman, Indian Council of
Social Science Research (ICSSR). New Delhi
R. Radhakrishna
Director, Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.
J.S. Rajput
Director General, National Council of Educational
Research & Training (NCERT), New Delhi.
H. Ramachandran
Director, Institute of Applied Manpower Research
(IAMR), New Delhi.
Prema Ramachandran
Adviser (Health), Planning Commission,
Government of India, New Delhi.
C.P. Ramaswamy
Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.
Shovan Ray
Former Consultant, Planning Commission,
Government of India, New Delhi.
H.S. Saksena
Editor, The Eastern Anthropologist, Lucknow.
S.S. Sandhu
Major General, New Delhi.
Rohit Sarkar
Special Consultant, Planning Commission,
Government of India, New Delhi.
Pronab Sen
Adviser (PP), Planning Commission,
Government of India, New Delhi.
Shailendra Sharma
Adviser, Labour, Employment and Manpower,
Planning Commission, Government of India, New Delhi.
Hira Singh
Former Director, National Institute of
Social Defence, New Delhi
Jasjit Singh
Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSS), New Delhi; Former Director,
Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.
Padam Singh
Additional Director General, Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi.
Panjab Singh
Director General, Indian Agricultural
Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.
K.C. Sivaramakrishnan
Professor, Centre for Policy Research,
New Delhi.
Krishan Sondhi
New Delhi.
K. Srinivasan
Former Director, Population Foundation of India,
New Delhi.
R. Srinivasan
Member, Independent Commission on
Health in India; Former Secretary to Government of India, Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi.
K.L. Thapar
Director, Asian Institute of Transport Development,
New Delhi
M.C. Verma
Adviser to Minister of Labour,
Shram Shakti Bhavan, New Delhi.
Pravin Visaria
Late, Professor and Former Director,
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi