Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Experts put their heads together on new avatar of plan panel

................“This is a work in progress, it’s not important to discuss upon the deliberations of today’s meeting, the outcome is important. And that decision will be taken by the Prime Minister. We also discussed upon how should the plan be allocated to states as well as upon the autonomy status to be granted to the new body,” Mr. Sinha said. He said it was a long standing need to reinvent the Planning Commission and the Prime Minister has taken a bold step. Replying to a question on how the plan allocation to the states will be given, he said it may be done through the Finance Commission. The meeting took place in two different groups simultaneously, one headed by Mr. Sinha had previous members of the Planning Commission, while the second group consisted of economists including Rajiv Kumar and Pronab Sen.....

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