........With more money flowing directly to states, there is a greater need to track the efficacy of public spending, a role ideally suited for the panel or its Independent Evaluation Office. Before state and local governments are ready to spend money, a lot of capacity building also needs to be done to ensure those given more freedom are in a position to do something with it. Whatever shape the plan panel’s successor takes, it has to be ensured the new body does not remain as much a symbol of central oppression as its predecessor. While the plan panel had several redeeming features, it cannot be denied it has been used as a tool of favouritism over the years............
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