The Executive Summary of the Advisory Council’s report largely deals with key macro variables. Structural changes, particularly in sectoral issues like energy, agriculture or infrastructure, have not been analysed. Some of these may hold the key to securing larger private flows as indeed the resolution of some important policy changes contained in the Eleventh Plan paper. Even on the broad macro framework there are some incongruities in the prescription of the Advisory Council and the policy package contained in the Eleventh Plan.

Not all bodies can think alike. Their divergent perception alters the policy prognosis. Plurality of views in a federal polity always makes for improved consensus.