title: India Vision 2020: The Report
author: Government of India Planning Commission
description: <DIV>The <B>Planning Commission </B>is part of the government of India entrusted with the task of drawing out extensive five-year plans for the country's development and playing a crucial role in the planning and policy-making process.</DIV>
zlib_text: Report of the Committee on
  India 
  Vision 2020
  Chairman
  Dr. S. P. Gupta
  NIEPA DC
  Planning Commission 
  Government of India 
  New Delhi
  DECEMBER, 2002
  
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  DEPUTY CHAIRMAN 
  PLANNING COMMISSION 
  INDIA
  December 16, 2002
  FOREWORD
  Every country needs a vision statement which stirs the imagination and 
  motivates all segments of society to greater effort. It is an essential step in building a 
  political consensus on a broad national development strategy, which encompasses, 
  inter-alia, the roles and responsibilities of different agents in the economy, such as 
  Central, State and local government, the private corporate sector, the small and tiny 
  sector, people’s organisations etc. It must identify the potential risks and bottlenecks 
  and their possible solutions in order to mobilise efforts in a focussed manner. It is 
  clear, therefore, that to meet these objectives, a vision statement has to operate at 
  several levels of generality and specificity.
  In order to a