In order to improve implementation of policies, the Planning Commission has launched ‘The India Backbone Implementation Network (IBIN).’
IBIN, structurally an organisation, is essentially a process that will promote widespread capabilities in the country to systematically convert “confusion to coordination, contention to collaboration, and intentions to implementation”. It aims to seed new techniques into the service delivery system.
It intends to build a network of partners to create capability to manage effective stakeholder dialogues, resolve disputes and conduct policy impact analysis. It also plans to build a knowledge base of tools, techniques and examples to systematically analyse situations or challenges and proactively create solutions. The purpose of IBIN is to improve implementation of policies, programmes and projects, which the 12th Plan has located as the critical necessity for accelerating more inclusive and faster growth, a Plan panel release said.
An analysis of projects and schemes has revealed that the major causes of bottlenecks in implementation are contention amongst stakeholders, and poor co-ordination amongst agencies.
IBIN has been modelled on the Total Quality Movement in Japan which, in the 1960s and 70s, transformed the capability of Japanese organisations in the private and public sectors to deliver results.
The Planning Commission also studied best practices for co-ordination and implementation in other countries such as Korea, Malaysia, Brazil, and Germany. Launching the new initiative, the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia said the Commission had introduced several innovations in the 12th Plan to improve planning, communication, and implementation. These include the use of techniques of ‘scenario planning’ for the first time, use of social media for communications with youth, and the concept of IBIN.
The new mechanism has been launched in association with India@75 Foundation.
The Co-Chairman of Infosys and Chairman of Apex Council of India@75, S. Gopalakrishnan, said that the objective of the Foundation was to assist collaborative movements of change to achieve national goals in important sectors.