Modi to meet CMs to discuss structure of Planning Commission replacement

November 28, 2014 21:03

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet chief ministers on December 7 to discuss the structure of new body which will replace the Planning Commission.

"The prime minister has convened a meeting of the chief ministers to seek their view point on the structure of the institution which would replace the Planning Commission," an official source said.

The prime minister, in his Independence Day speech, had announced that the commission, set up in 1950 at a time when government gave public sector the commanding heights of economy, would be abolished and replaced with a more relevant institution.

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