.........Planning Commission officials, who do not wish to be identified, spoke against replacing the Gadgil-Mukherjee formula; they say it is a time-tested one. Doing away with the existing classification of special category status to remote and hilly states, as recommended by the Rajan panel, needs approval from the National Development Council (NDC, comprising Centre and states), they contended. “Any move to alter the time-tested Gadgil-Mukherjee formula could open a can of worms,” a key Planning Commission official told Business Standard........
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