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Plan panel forms 17 consultative groups
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New Delhi
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Aug. 26
THE Planning Commission has set up 17 consultative groups for eliciting alternative perspectives, new ideas and non-governmental organisation (NGO) inputs into the process of mid-term appraisal of the Tenth Plan (2002-07).
Each consultative group would be chaired by a Member of the Plan panel and will have subject experts from Government and non-governmental agencies as members and these groups would provide guidance in the selection of key issues and emerging problems for policy responses to be dovetailed into the mid-term appraisal report, an official release said here.
The groups would study subjects in the realm of social inclusion and empowerment, labour and employment, poverty elimination and rural employment, environment and forest, agriculture, water resources, culture, higher and technical education, elementary and secondary education and literacy, youth affairs and sports, transport sector, tourism sector, industry, urban infrastructure, external sector and energy.
The consultative groups would have the powers to co-opt and draw professionals and domain experts from outside in a significant bid to get all-inclusive and cross-sectoral views from stakeholders to the proposed policy recommendations and mid-course corrections to the Tenth Plan programmes as also to weld them into the objectives set forth in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the UPA Government.
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