Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t have much love for the Planning Commission, probably because, as Gujarat chief minister, he had to go and beg for money from time to time, with disappointing results. After his arrival in South Block, the Planning Commission has lost its clout. But it’s still publishing statistics. The last financial year ended eight months ago, and still it’s giving an advance estimate of 4.74 per cent growth in the year long gone. Even this modest rate had much to do with the extraordinary 4.71 per cent growth in agriculture; if agriculture had grown at the normal 2 per cent rate, total growth would be down to 4.3 per cent.