Besides suppressing entrepreneurship, the top-down model of industrialisation through Five Years Plans re-enforced the process. Instead of building manufacturing units on a mass scale, which could have provided jobs to millions of unskilled and semi-skilled masses, India went for heavy industrialisation with imported technology. And these industrial wonders sat like an island in remote corners of the country with hardly any forward and backward linkages with the sea of destitute humanity surrounding them. A chance at employment in them required a level of education and modern technical knowhow. And there is no guessing who would be getting employment in these temples of modern India. Certainly not the Dalits whose educational statistics were as abysmal as it can be imagined. And the much-touted land reforms too gave the land to tenants, OBCs, and not to the tillers who were largely landless Dalit labourers.