This Article First Appeared In Timesofindia On Nov 13, 2022.
Earlier this year, The Economist described India’s statistical system as “crumbling”. How did we go from pioneering data-driven planning to this? Nikhil Menon, historian and author of ‘Planning Democracy: How a Professor, an Institute, and an Idea Shaped India’ tells Sunday Times about the history of Indian planning and its ties to P C Mahalanobis..