PM Modi on Saturday chaired the eighth governing council meeting of Niti Aayog. The theme of today’s Niti Aayog meet was ‘Viksit Bharat @2047: Role of Team India’. Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party, TMC and several other chief ministers boycotted the meeting. In a statement ahead of the meeting, the Niti Aayog said, “Eight prominent themes will be discussed during the day-long meeting including Viksit Bharat@2047, thrust on MSMEs, infrastructure and investments, minimising compliance, women empowerment, health and nutrition, skill development and Gati Shakti for area development and social infrastructure.”
“The meeting will see the participation of chief ministers/Lt Governors of all states and union territories, union ministers as ex-officio members, and the vice chairman and members of Niti Aayog”, it stated.
“Wide-ranging stakeholder consultations and brainstorming sessions with subject experts, academia and practitioners were held prior to the conference in order to gain well-rounded grassroots-level perspectives,” it further said.
PM Modi “This 8th Governing Council Meeting is also being held against the backdrop of India’s G20 Presidency. India’s G20 motto ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’ conveys its civilisational values and its vision of the role of each country in creating the future of our planet,” the NITI Aayog said.
Meanwhile, chief ministers Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann, Mamata Banerjee, K Chandrashekar Rao, Ashok Gehlot, Nitish Kumar and MK Stalin announced a boycott of the meeting of Niti Aayog.
In a letter to the prime minister, AAP supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal charged that “cooperative federalism” in the country was being turned into a “joke”.
The ordinance recently brought by the BJP-led central government has taken back the elected Delhi government’s executive control over bureaucracy that was earlier given to it by the Supreme Court through its verdict on May 11.
