PM Modi to chair 8th NITI Governing Council meeting today
PM Modi will deliberate on issues related to health, skill development, women's empowerment, and infrastructure development.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair NITI Aayog’s eighth Governing Council meeting on May 27 at the Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
The meeting will be held in the new convention centre on the theme of Viksit Bharat @2047: Role of Team India, which Modi will preside over as the chairman of the NITI Aayog meeting.
In the meeting PM Modi will deliberate on issues related to health, skill development, women’s empowerment, and infrastructure development, with the aim of making India a developed nation by 2047.
“Eight prominent themes will be discussed during the day-long meeting, including (i) Viksit Bharat@2047, (ii) Thrust on MSMEs, (iii) Infrastructure and Investments, (iv) Minimising Compliances, (v) Women Empowerment, (vi) Health and Nutrition, (vii) Skill Development, and (viii) Gati Shakti for area development and social infrastructure,” the NITI Aayog stated.
The council, the apex body of NITI Aayog, includes Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors of all States and Union Territories, Union Ministers as ex-officio Members, and the Vice Chairman and Members of NITI Aayog”, it stated.
The statement noted that, as the world’s fifth-largest economy and the most populous nation, India is at a stage in its economic development trajectory where it can achieve accelerated growth over the next 25 years.
In this context, the 8th Governing Council Meeting provides an opportunity to make a roadmap for Viksit Bharat by 2047 in which the centre and states can work together as Team India. This will play a significant role in the global setting as India’s financial development and change can meaningfully affect the world at large, it said.
It further said, “Wide-ranging stakeholder consultations and brainstorming sessions with subject experts, academia, and practitioners were held prior to the conference in order to gain well-rounded grassroots-level perspectives.”
The NITI Aayog further said, “This 8th Governing Council Meeting is also being held in the backdrop of India’s G20 Presidency. India’s G20 motto, ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’ conveys its civilizational values and its vision of each country’s role in creating our planet’s future.
“The emerging world has immense hopes for India’s ability to provide values-based leadership and its capacity to deliver development at scale. The Centre and States have played a significant role in achieving this distinctive development trajectory,” the Aayog said.
India’s growth is closely interlinked with the development of the states. As mentioned by the Prime Minister in his 76th Independence Day address, ‘When our states grow, India grows’
India’s inclusive and sustainable vision for the next quarter century will be guided by this principle.
To accomplish this vision, the 8th Governing Council Meeting would give a stage to reinforcing centre-state cooperation and forging partnerships for achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat @2047.
Ms Kalinga