Subhas Chandra Bose Pioneer of Indian Planning

Abstract

From Foreword: The blueprint for Tree India outlined by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in his presidential address at the Maripura Session of the Indian National Congress in February 1938, envisaged that the first task of the Government of Free India would be to set up a 'national Planning Commission'. He foresaw India’s freedom and in order to accelerate the task of national reconstruction and fight against poverty, he spent the better part of his tenure as the Congress President in 1938, in paving the way for setting up the national Planning Committee under the aegis of the Indian national Congress.