After the first meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog on Sunday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said in a press conference that PM Narendra Modi has announced the planning panel would constitute three sub-groups of chief ministers.
Here are the highlights:
- By and large states were highly supportive of this idea of decentralizing a large number of centrally sponsored schemes
- Flagship schemes of the government were supported by almost all
- PM Narendra Modi made some important announcements in his concluding comment
- He emphasized how the Jan Dhan scheme became successful essentially because every state cooperated
- States adopted these schemes as their own schemes
- PM said Niti Aayog would constitute three sub-groups of CMs
- Names will be given out once chief ministers indicate their preferences
- First sub-group is in relation to which among the 66 schemes can be cut down or be transferred to states
- Second sub-group on human resource development, on what kind of activity should states have under NITI Aayog
- Third sub-group on what is the institutional mechanism to be involved and what kind of technology knowhow is essential for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
- Members of these sub-groups will be announced after chief ministers indicate their preferences
- Under the aegis of Niti Aayog, PM Narendra Modi has requested states to constitute 2 task forces in every state
- One task force will be on poverty alleviation
- Another on how a push can be given to agriculture in every state
- It was an extremely useful meeting
- There was a large consensus that economy activity is going to be in states. Therefore increased empowerment of states is required
- There was no discussion on Budget in the meeting
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