Planning for employment / edited by L. Narayana, K. Deshpande and R. K. Sinha

In a series of articles, the present volume sketches the abject poverty amidst plenty, continual unemploy ment, low rate of productivity, low per capita income which have be come perennial features of the Indian economy in the past thirty three years and points out that underdeveloped countries in their efforts to plan for economic development conceived of increasing industrial growth as a panacea for solving the above problems. It is unfortunate that planners have adopted wrong strategies for plann ing which have shown only a glim of hope for Indian masses.

In the third world countries which have been experiencing population and workforce explosion, develop ment goals have to be redefined in terms of removal of unemployment, reduction of inequalities of income and ensuring certain minimum needs for the common man.

The book is the first study of its kind on the strategy of Planning for Employment which emerg ed out of the national seminar held in Tirupati in December 1977. Some of the most outstanding Economists of India have contributed papers in the book. For the first time an attempt has been made to provide a comprehensive treatment on the Strategy of Planning for Employ ment by the most creative and criti cal minds of the country. The most significant aspect of the papers that appear in the volume is that they have suggested a framework for action. The book which quotes at length very useful facts and figures should make very interesting reading for polic-ymakers, planners and the general readers.