CMs panel on central schemes to submit report to PM today

October 27, 2015 08:11

A chief ministers' panel on rationalisation of centrally-sponsored schemes constituted by NITI Aayog will submit its final report to the prime minister today.

The sub-group was formed in March this year and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is its convener. NITI Aayog Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sindhushree Khullar is the coordinator of the sub-group.

Chief Ministers of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Jharkhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland, Telangana, and Lt Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands are among the members of the panel.

Terms of reference of the panel is to examine existing CSS and recommend measures for ensuring that implementation is streamlined and adequately flexible; increased devolution of taxes to States as per Finance Commission recommendations as well as to suggest suitable measures for coordination between Centre and States.

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