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Union Cabinet adopts CMP

By P. Sunderarajan

NEW DELHI, MAY 28. The Union Cabinet tonight adopted the Common Minimum Programme formulated by the ruling United Progressive Alliance as the National Common Minimum Programme and decided to set up an advisory council with a chairperson in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. The panel will have 20 members to be appointed by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh.

The Cabinet meeting also decided that each Ministry at the Centre would work out the modalities along with the financial implications for the implementation of the various items in the programme that were of concern to them.

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