Arjun wants Plan panel to spare more rural funds

“The Planning Commission will do a great service if they set apart more funds to giving reality to Gandhiji’s thought,” he said at the seminar. “It is high time that the Planning Commission focused on the Gandhian scheme of things,” he said.The two-day seminar has been organised by the National Council of Rural Institutes, Hyderabad, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The minister said globalisation was not a bad thing in itself and he was not against that policy. “But if globalisation does not link up with rural prosperity, I do not think that it will survive in a mainly agrarian society like India,” he said.