ABSTRACT
After the disappointments of the 1950s, a decade given over to trying to prevent the draining away of idealism or at best to maintain the status quo, the 1960s presented fresh opportunities. A succession of governments that crossed the political divide shared a renewed commitment to planning as an essential means of modernizing the country. Old planning practices were overhauled and new measures introduced in a spate of activity that reminded some observers of the innovative days of post-1945. It was in this respect that, twenty years after the first programme, planning experienced something of a second revolution.
