II Bookkeeping Function

February 28, 1976 mention of employment This is ex- cused by the view that "in India's type of underdevelopment labour is not a scarce factor". Nor was there any discussion of poverty and of the distribution of income, except in Pitambar Pant's stillborn perspective plan aimed at providing a minimum level of real income to the whole population, which was partially revamped in the no-less ineffective discussion of the Fifth Plan.