PM Modi chairs NITI Aayog's Governing Council meeting

April 23, 2017 12:25

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing the third meeting of NITI Aayog's Governing Council which will deliberate on the 15-year vision document to accelerate the country's economic development.

Cabinet ministers, chief ministers, officials, members of NITI Aayog and special invitees are attending the meeting.

Some non-BJP Chief Ministers like Mamata Banerjee and Mukul Sangma have skipped the meet and sent their ministers instead.

West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra is attending the meeting on behalf of Banerjee.

However, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Congress' Punjab CM Amarinder Singh and Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh are present for the meeting. Chief Ministers of Left-ruled states, Manik Sarkar of Tripura and Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala are also present there along with Tamil Nadu's E Palaniswamy.

The Modi government has already made it clear that it was dumping the Soviet-era relic, the five-year-plans, since it was too short a period to plan, and too narrow an approach. All previous schemes under this format ended this year.

Unlike the five year plan, the vision document will not only have broad targets for the economic and social sector but also map the objectives in internal security and defence.

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