New Delhi : Nearly three years after winding up the Planning Commission and the ‘Nehruvian’ five-year plans after coming to power, the Modi government is to dole out its own version of 3-year Action Plan at a meeting of the governing council of the NITI Aayog here on Sunday.
The governing council, which has all the chief ministers as members, will be also presented two other policy documents prepared by the Aayog– 7-year Development Strategy Plan and 15-year Vision Document. Prime Minister Modi is the chairman of the Aayog. This will be the second meeting of the governing council he would chair, the first hld back on February 8, 2015.Also on its agenda is the agricultural reforms to work out how the states can work closely with the Centre to double the income of the farmers in the next three years.
Asked how the new 3-year plan drafted by the Aayog will be different from the 5-year plans rolled out by the Planning Commission, its earlier avatar, an Aayog official said the 5-year plans were more broad-based and generic in nature and the state governments had to make rounds of the Planning Commission every year for approval of their annual plans to fit into the 5-year plan, the 3-year Action Plan will focus on priority areas and set time frames for achieving the targets.
