OUTSIDERS IN THE INDIAN PLANNING COMMISSION

Like our friends in the Left parties I too was very peeved at Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission when he announced the nomination of representatives of Asian Development Bank and other organisations from outside India to be part of the Planning Committee.

But on looking deeper I was able to understand the larger interests of the country that Mr.Montek Singh intends to cater through a silent revolution that he has started. We all are well aware of the brain drain taking place in India and also that most of the top executives in international organizations around the world are Indians who would otherwise not return to India, unless there is a calamity in the country where they reside.

Mr. Montek Singh has only done good to our country through this novel way of outsourcing Indians and bringing the Indian brains back to India by nominating officials of International organizations into the planning commission. So let the left front be rest assured that the planning commission will only be consisting of Indians, so what if they have a foreign accent.