Plan panel: New approach needed for big leap forward, says PM Narendra Modi. Greater role for states in New plan body Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday gave a new thrust to an effective replacement of the planning commission, a government release said. The prime Minister described Team India as a combination of three teams- the Prime Minister and Chief Minister, the union council of Ministers and the bureaucracy in the centre and states. Invoking the sprit of cooperative federalism,Modi said that the current global scenario offered a chance for India to take a big leap forward and stressed the need for a suitable body to replace a planning commission so that the strengths of the country can be suitable harnessed. He said the question of role, relevance and restructuring of the Planning Commission had been repeatedly Questioned for more than two decades. The first introspection was done after the launch of economic reforms, in 1992, when it was felt that in light of changing Government policy, a different approach was required. In 2012, the parliamentary Consultative Committee stressed the need for a serious look at the Planning Commission and the need for a new body to replace it. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had stressed the need for a relook at the Planning Commission towards the end of his term, the Prime Minister added. Modi stated that when he was Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had attended meetings of the Planning Commission, and had left the need for a better platform to articulate the view of states. #Bottom_to_top_approach He said it is impossible for the nation to develop unless states develop. Hr said the process of policy Planning also had to change from top to bottom to bottom to top The Prime Minister also noted that in countries such as the US. Thinktanks that function independently of the Government have a major role in Policy-making. He said that in India, too, there is a great deal of economic activity that happens outside the Government setup, and there is a need to design policies for them as well. Can we develop a new mechanism, that plans according to Indias strengths, empowers states, and brings in board all economic activity, including that which happens outside the Government, Modi said at the outset of Sundays consultation meeting, where he added that the views which the States expressed would prove valuable in shaping the new body to replace the Planning Commission.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:31:04 +0000
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