WE have had ‘plan holidays’, that is, a break from five-year plans, many times before. In the late 1960s, the late 1970s and the early 1990s. The first and third were occasioned by economic crises that made extant plans impractical. The break from a five-year plan in the late 1970s (1978-80) was not referred to as a ‘plan holiday’ but as the adoption of a ‘rolling plan’. The latest plan holiday, if one can call it that, after the winding up of the Planning Commission in 2014, has lasted long and. . .
