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Planning panel's regional meet from tomorrow

V.S. Acharya

BANGALORE: The Planning Commission will organise a two-day regional level consultation with southern States in Bangalore from June 10 to elicit their views on the approach to the 12 {+t} {+h} Five Year Plan from 2012.

Announcing this at a press conference here on Wednesday, Minister for Higher Education and Planning V.S. Acharya said the consultation, which was being held to build consensus on the key parameters to be addressed in the approach paper to the 12 {+t} {+h} Plan, was being organised in association with the State Government.

He said that Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Union Minister for Planning and Chief Ministers as well as Ministers for Planning from all the southern States would participate in the consultation along with their official delegations. Members from both the urban and rural local bodies from the southern States would also be part of the consultation process.

Academics, non-governmental organisations, members from civil society and trade associations are also being heard at the consultative meeting, which will have four sessions spread over two days.

He said that the Planning Commission had identified 12 “key strategic challenges for development” for initiating the consultation process. The challenges are: Enhancing the capacity for growth, skills and faster generation of employment, managing the environment, markets for efficiency and inclusion, decentralisation, empowerment and information, technology and innovation, securing energy future for India, accelerated development of transport infrastructure, rural transformation and sustained growth of agriculture, managing urbanisation, improved access to quality education and better preventive and curative health care.

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