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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Assam grabs plan panel ear

Assam grabs plan panel ear

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published Published on Nov 19, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 19, 2011

-The Telegraph

Assam has managed to secure an exclusive meeting with the Planning Commission wherein it would make a strong case for a state-specific development strategy.

Chief minister Tarun Gogoi revealed this here today during an interaction with reporters.

He said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had assured him of arranging a full-fledged meeting with the plan panel during his meeting with the former in Delhi early this week.

According to a senior official of the state planning and development department, though the date or venue of the meeting had not yet been decided, it would be a departure from the normal manner of functioning of the plan panel, as it would involve “special” consideration towards a particular state.

Singh, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Assam, heads the Planning Commission, while Montek Singh Ahluwalia is the vice-chairman.

Gogoi said, “When the Prime Minister said he had increased the allocation for the gas cracker project by Rs 5,000 crore, I said such projects were welcome, but we need to seriously focus more on cottage and village-based industries to solve the basic problem of unemployment and a state-specific strategy should also be accorded priority. On hearing this, he promised to arrange a full-fledged meeting with Planning Commission.”

Gogoi said he would also be instructing the deputy commissioners to prepare district-wise plans for employment, particularly for those areas along the state’s borders where a lot of development was needed, as these underdeveloped areas could become breeding grounds for extremist forces, including Maoists.

Gogoi had requested the commission to lay special emphasis on removing regional disparity, improving connectivity, education and proper utilisation of water resources of the state on July 4 during the regional-level consultation meeting of Northeast states on the approach paper to the Twelfth Plan (2012-2017) organised by the plan panel here.

The chief minister, unwavering as usual in his focus on the rural belt, said he had requested Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda, public information infrastructure & innovations adviser to the Prime Minister, during a meeting with the latter, to go for grassroots innovations for the benefit of the common man.

He even recalled an interaction with Ratan Tata, urging him to concentrate on agriculture “or else who will buy your cars and trucks”.

“Since I talk about agriculture and farmers, I do not get publicity. These sectors are not as glamorous as information technology, a secretary-level official at the Centre told me during my trip to Delhi. But my focus area would remain the rural belt and its development,” Gogoi said while looking forward to the visit by Subramanian Ramadorai, the advisor to the Prime Minister in the National Council on Skill Development, on Monday.

The Telegraph, 20 November, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111120/jsp/frontpage/story_14775513.jsp


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