Listened to first Modi speech on Indian Independence Day from the ramparts of Red Fort. Those who have been waiting for big announcements may be tad disappointed and city-bred people like me may feel the speech lacking lusture, but the few agenda items for his Government and social agenda items he has set for the people would go a long way enabling the country to change. Shri Modi is a utilitarian man, an implementer. That is what he wants us to be. It is good not to be pretentious as unfortunately most educated people in India are. I am sure he will see to it that things do happen. I however am skeptical of his plan of revamping the planning commission. I feel Shri Manmohan Singh had already made some changes within it and I have a feeling that political noises apart he understood the inevitability of that. Great peoples' mind have worked in the planning process, from Netaji to Nehru and Mahalanobis. I do not see any need to tamper with it. I will rather see the Planning Commission retained and it rather be broad based including National Develoment Council conclve and Finance Ministers' meet within its ambit.