The Fifth Steel Plant Andhra s Case

C V H Rao IT MAY BE a distressing symptom of the prevailing unrest in the country on diverse issues, that the location of a fifth steel plant has also been made a serious cause for widespread public agitation. It is however, also a symptom of the weaknesses that currently characterise official actions, at the Central Government level, that the decision on the steel plant, which was to have been arrived at some months back, in fact along with the formulation of the fourth Plan, has been continuously delayed and postponed.