Poor plan allocation may sound death knell
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14/07/1998
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Statesman (New Delhi)
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has wanred that the declining Plan allocation will force the government to wind up the Food Processing Ministry. The committee which tabled its Eleventh Report expressed serious concern about the continuous decline in percentage of allocation of annual Plan outlay from 0.091% in 1992-93 to 0.041% in 1998-99. It says that due to this decline that effective performance of this ministry has been crippled.