Government of India Planning Commission Report on Public Administration

The disappointment of many sections of the people is of course all the greater because they had been brought up to think that all the ills of this country were due to the foreigner and that once he had been got rid of very substantial progress in the standard of living would automatically follow. [...] The ideology of the party in power and the wisdom and vision of those in office 8PRIORITIES 9 will be the principal factors in the choice of objectives. [...] Moreover as the malady which affects the body politic today is the lowering of individual character and the weakening of the moral fibre the remedy must also be sought on the moral plane. [...] The only real remedy for this state of affairs lies in raising the calibre of the Legislators the sense of responsibility of the Minister and the character of the officer. [...] The continuous tranmission of ideas from the Government to the electorate the keeping in touch with the constituency which is so important to the legislator and the influential party man in other countries does not seem to occupy much of the time of their co-evils here.