Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), Ahmedabad

Established : 1973 The Indian Institute of Planning and Management aims at initiating training and research on problems of development that must be solved for realising planned national objectives. Unfortunately education in India has still remained primarily oriented towards the needs of the private sector and has overlooked the specific requirements of the public sector. We have even failed to do justice to the private sector in as much as we have not succeeded in impressing upon the students the basic framework within which the private sector has to operate in our country. The scope and role of the private sector in our country, in the context of national economic planning, is quite distinct from that of the private sector in the free market economies originally developed through colonial exploitation. Problems of development of the private and the public sectors are, therefore, to be studied and analyzed carefully in the background of national economic...