India’s policy imagination consistently outstrips its capacity to deliver. From flagship welfare schemes to ambitious infrastructure programmes, the country designs transformative policy with striking regularity and then watches much of it lose fidelity between the drafting table and the last mile.
Government being a continuum, the flexibility for a new government to make drastic changes is rather limited. Most old programmes will continue, maybe under a new name but with higher allocation, and a few new ones would be added, maybe with a new resolve. The progression will be unhurried but steady, based on the work done earlier.
