For the last three annual meetings, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Indian states and regions have been motivated to develop ‘Vikasit State’ vision statements. Each of these vision is to include a ladder set of vision statements from cities, towns and villages within the state.
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K CEO Niti Ayog Said that 17 states had completed such scheme. The structure for this exercise is designed to integrate the state’s plans in a grand that attaches the whole of India as a developed (or ‘(or’Vikasit‘) By the time it completes a century as an independent nation in 2047.
In some ways, this is a wonderful project. It brings the Center and the states together for a collective mission, which aimed at nurturing inclusive prosperity in the country. At the same time, each state is encouraged to think about its strength, weaknesses, opportunities and dangers (a ‘swot’ analysis) and manufactured plans that are unique to its settlement.
A land-clot state can focus on areas that are different from one beach (say, say, agriculture), and a hilly state with natural beauty, can choose suitable policies (say, tourism) that may vary from a dry state (which can focus on solar energy).
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The early signs of states pouring elements of their plan in the public domain reflect this diversity. Gujarat focused on $ 3.5 trillion state economy by 2047 on urban development, women participation in the workforce and the discovery of pure-zero carbon emissions. In Andhra Pradesh, there are plans to attract investment, prioritize skilling, use public-service distribution and technology for governance and end poverty.
Of course, states can apply these schemes in a very different way. Some will collect dust, while in others the cells will have to enable and monitor the progress. These schemes are part dreams, partial industrial policy and part roadmap. So far, they lack detailed implementation plans, and do not reveal a fine sense of competent stages required to give results from what is available in public domains.
Other countries have tried these imagination exercises, they have been successful up to different degrees. The most spectacular performance of success is the change of Dubai, UAE. The Emirates turned itself into a diverse economy on the basis of tourism, financial services and trade, depending on oil revenue in the 1960s and 70s. A similar change is going on in Saudi Arabia, with some large projects on the track and other people like its Phantomagorical Nom City derailed. Bangladesh’s Vision 2041 was done without the departure of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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In India, the surface bone hides the differences. Last year, Tamil Nadu boycotted the entire developed project, and this year, Karnataka has done so; Both states are led by political parties, which are against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of the Center. This lacks belief arises because there is no political platform to discuss issues between the Center and the states.
Interstate Council (ISC) is a non-installed body to address this in 1990 as a birth for the government. ISC can be called at any time by the President’s order. It has been found 12 times since, but has not met since 2017. While its component members are roughly similar to those who met during the recent NITI Governing Council meeting, its agenda is not set only on one side. ISC aims to ‘solve’ difficult political conflicts, not just to create a powerpoint document.
There are other issues. Except for Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the Indian state level development models are headed by heavy state. The private sector mostly calls without the construction of these visions. Furthermore, the philosophy of the state is only an ambition of commerce – establishing a banned structure, for example- and the promoter of Fair Play is foreign to most states, except for something in the south and west.
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Given the emphasis of the Center on the power of the administrative state, it does not actively encourage the organic ‘flower’ of the economy. Contradictory, Sanskrit word ‘VikasitOnly ‘developed’ has been translated into English, but its meaning is close to ‘opening’ or ‘blooming’. For this to happen, the role of the government should be reduced over time and the country’s vision plan should be lower than a government-monkey garden and exceeding a natural habitat of independently growing biodiversity under the leadership of a private sector.
The correct balance of the strike is where the Center and the state create competent infrastructure. States may require roads, ports, airports, multi-modal freight stations, inland waterways etc., to generate human capital, the government should work to improve the quality of education and employment of college graduates. In addition, it should encourage the private sector to participate in the economy through business -friendly policies.
Any major industrial policy at the center or state level is similar to the central scheme and is bound as a result of relatively poor returns on allocated funds. It will also risk remembering the goal of making India a rich rich country.
Punash: “All happy families are the same; Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Leo Tolstoy said in ‘Anna Kareinina’.