New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over an important meeting of Neeti Ayog in Bharat Mandapam in the national capital on Saturday.
Indian armed forces have held the first major conversation between the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers of all the states after successfully executing Operation Sindoor, which ended the camps and their training centers of nine terrorists in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir earlier this month.
According to a statement by NITI Aayog, the meeting underlines the Prime Minister’s commitment to work with all states as “Team India” to achieve the goal of a developed India.
The statement said, “As India moves towards becoming a developed country, it is necessary that the states take advantage of their unique strength and run transformative changes at the ground level, ensuring that the aspirations of the 140 million citizens translate into tangible results on the ground,” the statement said.
The meeting was ‘Vikasit state for Vikasit India@2047’, which aims to promote cooperative federalism and to align state-level aspirations with the national goal of making India a developed country until the 100th year of independence.
The discussion will enable states to prepare bold, long -term and inclusive vision documents, aligning with national priorities, which are still inherent in local reality.
States are expected to focus on human development, economic growth, stability, technology and governance reforms with emphasizing data-operating and result-based strategies. Project monitoring units such as institutional mechanisms, ICT-competent infrastructure, and monitoring and evaluation cells will support accountability and course improvement.
The meeting of the Governing Council serves as a platform for the Center and States/Union Region (UTS) to discuss the challenges of development and find out how the state can serve as a Vikasat India’s construction sections.
Topics like entrepreneurship promotion, increased skilling and sustainable employment generation will also be discussed.
The meeting will also try to build consensus on the subjects of the fourth national conference of the Chief Secretaries held from 13 to 15 December 2024.
The conference, which saw the participation of the central government secretaries and the Chief Secretaries of the States and UTS, contributed the recommendations under the overlapping subject of ‘promoting entrepreneurship, employment and skilling-lever’.
Six major thematic areas emerged from the conference:
1. Creating a competent ecosystem for manufacturing in tier 2 and 3 cities;
2. Creating a competent ecosystem for services in tier 2 and 3 cities;
3. MSME and informal employment in rural non-agricultural sectors;
4. MSME and informal employment in urban areas;
5. Opportunities in the green economy through renewable energy; And
6. Opportunities in the green economy through the initiative of the circular economy.
A senior government official said that the budget is likely to participate in the discussion 2025-26 and the initiative of prevailing economic challenges.
The official said the Indian economy, the US and the global recession are expected to grow between 6.2 and 6.7 percent in the current financial year, despite headwinds such as mutual tariffs.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have revised India’s development estimates for 2025–26, 6.2 percent and 6.3 percent respectively, to 6.2 percent and 6.3 percent respectively, citing global uncertainties and trade tensions.
The Governing Council, the top decision -making bodies of the Neeti Aog, all the Chief Ministers, Lieutenant Governors of the UTS and several Union Ministers are included.
PM Modi, who has presided over the body since his establishment, will preside over the meeting.
In particular, 10 states and UTS did not attend last year’s meeting held on 27 July.
Niti Aayog is in the process of preparing a consolidated vision document to direct India to become $ 30 trillion economy by 2047.
In 2023, ten sectoral the thematic vision was assigned with integration, the document will include economic development, social development, stability and governance as major pillars.
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