Jawaharlal
Nehru’s flawed economic policies have left a nation finding it difficult to
realise its potential even more than 65 years after Independence
As the first Prime Minister of
independent India, who enjoyed uninterrupted power for 17 long years (1947-64),
Jawaharlal Nehru was expected to leave a formidable political, administrative,
and economic legacy on which future India was to be built upon. Politically, it
should have been strong grassroots democracy based on Panchayati Raj institutions.
Administratively, there should have been a paradigm change from a colonial
command system to a democratic participatory framework of governance. Economic
development should have been people-centred, opting for ‘production by the
masses’ instead of ‘mass production’. In all these, Pandit Nehru failed and
left a flawed legacy which the country is even now finding difficult to cope
with.
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