FYDP Formulation Questioned

Five-year development plans (FYDPs) have been devised and approved for the past several decades.

A large part of the country’s bureaucracy is tasked with writing them and the parliament’s commissions spend countless hours evaluating and approving them. Occasionally, correspondence is undertaken to ascertain the prospects of realizing the goals envisioned in the plans. All these processes can be meaningful, if the government’s approach is compatible with the plan. But when the performance of government agencies is not in line with with the plans, spending this huge amount of time and energy becomes questionable.