Som Karamchetty 1500 days ago

NITI Aayog should develop a format for national strategic planning using some modified form of Russell Ackoff’s method. It should be in a digital format. It should be scalable in the sense that it can be used at the gram panchayat level as well as the state and national levels by merely adding the numbers. Such a strategic plan would recognize the current situation and choose a grand target for the future fifteen years out. It selects key targets and develops the Ends plan and Means plan. Then comes the Resource plan and the leadership has to realize that the private sector could be the investor of most resources. As people move up the social, economic, and knowledge ladders, the needs and demands change. The digital format should be like a cooking recipe that any common citizen in a leadership position can provide inputs into without seeking help from a PHD in economics.

In the absence of such a format, the plan document merely becomes a wish list by politicians who would like to use it as a manifesto for their election propaganda.