Ex.497, The Planning Commission has

The Planning Commission has repeatedly emphasised in its Tenth Plan Report the importance of ensuring that the backward classes get adequate benefit from the general progress and that the special programmes financed from Plan provision should not be used as substitute for the measures necessary to enable these classes to get due advantage from the general progress. But no attempt is, however, made in the Mid-term Appraisal to assess how far this recommendation of the Planning Commission was effectively implemented by the Central and the State Governments.