Strategy? What strategy?

A rise in the tax-GDP ratio can be used to add to current government spending, says the author

The NITI Aayog has unveiled its 41-chapter “Strategy for New India @ 75.” I am baffled as to why such a document is produced so late in the lifetime of this government. Still, the intention is welcome; since the abolition of the Planning Commission, there has been no comprehensive attempt to specify a strategic framework to secure India’s development objectives.

Strategy is defined in the dictionary as “a plan of action designed to achieve a long term aim”. I was hoping this is what I would find in this voluminous document. I was disappointed.

A plan of action specifies what needs to