Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindustan Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;br /&gt;
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24312,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindustan Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindustan Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;br /&gt;
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24312,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 24139
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindustan Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Hindustan Times</div><p align="justify"><br />Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).</p><p align="justify">Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query.</p><p align="justify">Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.<br /> <br />PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.</p><p align="justify">In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.</p><p align="justify">Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. </p><p align="justify">&quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.<br /> <br />The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.</p><p align="justify">PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, &quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&quot;<br />        <br />The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.</p><p align="justify">Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&quot; &quot;It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&quot;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindustan Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;br /&gt;
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24312,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindustan Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindustan Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;br /&gt;
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24312,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 24139
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindustan Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Hindustan Times</div><p align="justify"><br />Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).</p><p align="justify">Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query.</p><p align="justify">Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.<br /> <br />PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.</p><p align="justify">In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.</p><p align="justify">Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. </p><p align="justify">&quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.<br /> <br />The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.</p><p align="justify">PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, &quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&quot;<br />        <br />The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.</p><p align="justify">Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&quot; &quot;It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&quot;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67feb6a995d44-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindustan Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;br /&gt;
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24312,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindustan Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 24139,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
-The Hindustan Times
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt;
 &lt;br /&gt;
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
        &lt;br /&gt;
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;
&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 0,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; (int) 24312,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 24139
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai&#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;-The Hindustan Times&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister&#039;s office (PMO).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM&#039;s stewardship - haven&#039;t met for years, says the RTI query.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM&#039;s councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;PM&#039;s council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven&#039;t had much communication from the government. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM&#039;s level was a wonderful initiative. But I don&#039;t know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&amp;quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;PM&#039;s council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn&#039;t met even once. Once again, the PMO didn&#039;t address the query directly, saying instead, &amp;quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM&#039;s council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;It is unfortunate that the PM&#039;s council hasn&#039;t met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM&#039;s national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &amp;quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai</strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <div align="justify">-The Hindustan Times</div><p align="justify"><br />Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).</p><p align="justify">Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query.</p><p align="justify">Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.<br /> <br />PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.</p><p align="justify">In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.</p><p align="justify">Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. </p><p align="justify">&quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.<br /> <br />The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.</p><p align="justify">PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, &quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&quot;<br />        <br />The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.</p><p align="justify">Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&quot; &quot;It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&quot;</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 24139,
		'title' => 'PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai',
		'subheading' => '',
		'description' => '<div align="justify">
-The Hindustan Times
</div>
<p align="justify">
<br />
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).
</p>
<p align="justify">
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query.
</p>
<p align="justify">
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.<br />
 <br />
PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
</p>
<p align="justify">
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
</p>
<p align="justify">
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. 
</p>
<p align="justify">
&quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.<br />
 <br />
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
</p>
<p align="justify">
PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, &quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&quot;<br />
        <br />
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
</p>
<p align="justify">
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&quot; &quot;It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&quot;
</p>',
		'credit_writer' => 'The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312',
		'meta_title' => null,
		'meta_keywords' => null,
		'meta_description' => null,
		'noindex' => (int) 0,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => (int) 24312,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 24139,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister',
	'metaDesc' => '
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's...',
	'disp' => '<div align="justify">-The Hindustan Times</div><p align="justify"><br />Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).</p><p align="justify">Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query.</p><p align="justify">Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.<br /> <br />PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.</p><p align="justify">In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.</p><p align="justify">Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. </p><p align="justify">&quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.<br /> <br />The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.</p><p align="justify">PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, &quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&quot;<br />        <br />The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.</p><p align="justify">Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&quot; &quot;It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&quot;</p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 24139,
	'title' => 'PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai',
	'subheading' => '',
	'description' => '<div align="justify">
-The Hindustan Times
</div>
<p align="justify">
<br />
Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).
</p>
<p align="justify">
Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query.
</p>
<p align="justify">
Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.<br />
 <br />
PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.
</p>
<p align="justify">
In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.
</p>
<p align="justify">
Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. 
</p>
<p align="justify">
&quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.<br />
 <br />
The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.
</p>
<p align="justify">
PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, &quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&quot;<br />
        <br />
The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.
</p>
<p align="justify">
Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&quot; &quot;It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&quot;
</p>
<p align="justify">
Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&quot;
</p>',
	'credit_writer' => 'The Hindustan Times, 21 February, 2014, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met/article1-1186357.aspx',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'pm-headed-panels-hardly-ever-met-says-rti-query-sandeep-pai-24312',
	'meta_title' => null,
	'meta_keywords' => null,
	'meta_description' => null,
	'noindex' => (int) 0,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => (int) 24312,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 24139
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai'
$metaKeywords = 'Right to Information (RTI),Right to Information,Right to Information Act,rti,transparency,Governance,prime minister'
$metaDesc = '
-The Hindustan Times



Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's...'
$disp = '<div align="justify">-The Hindustan Times</div><p align="justify"><br />Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO).</p><p align="justify">Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query.</p><p align="justify">Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank.<br /> <br />PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010.</p><p align="justify">In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013.</p><p align="justify">Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. </p><p align="justify">&quot;With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council,&quot; Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT.<br /> <br />The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years.</p><p align="justify">PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, &quot;The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis.&quot;<br />        <br />The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011.</p><p align="justify">Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said,&quot; &quot;It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now.&quot;</p><p align="justify">Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, &quot;I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later.&quot;</p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

PM-headed panels hardly ever met, says RTI query -Sandeep Pai

-The Hindustan Times Several important councils and committees formed and headed by Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh have either not met even once or only rarely, according to a Right to Information (RTI) reply procured by HT from the Prime Minister's office (PMO). Important committees on nutrition, skill development, climate change, and micro, small, medium enterprises (MSME) - all under the PM's stewardship - haven't met for years, says the RTI query. Interestingly, the RTI application also revealed while the social sector committees have rarely met, PM's councils on trade and industry, manufacturing, and investments have met regularly. This comes in the backdrop of the ruling UPA government focusing on social-sector development as a poll plank. PM's council for nutritional challenges is a prime example of the social sector neglect. Set up in October 2008 to address child and maternal malnutrition in 200 worst-affected districts, the council met only once in November 2010. In the same period, India has been consistently ranked behind most developing economies on the Global Hunger Index, trailing even Pakistan and Bangladesh in 2013. Headed by the PM, the committee comprises ministers in charge of human resource development, finance, agriculture and rural development, and expert members, many of whom haven't had much communication from the government. "With so many reeling under severe malnourishment, such a council at PM's level was a wonderful initiative. But I don't know why meetings are not taking place. Since I did not get any requests from the government I thought they have dissolved this council," Dr Rani Bang, a member of the nutrition council, told HT. The PMO, however, said it has been following up the matter with different ministries, departments and the planning commission on a regular basis, skirting the core question of the committee not having met in more than three years. PM's council on MSMEs has also suffered a similar fate. The council, constituted in September 2009 to formulate policies to incentivize MSMEs reeling under economic slowdown, hasn't met even once. Once again, the PMO didn't address the query directly, saying instead, "The adviser to PM is monitoring the implementation of the report on MSMEs that resulted in the setting up of the council. The adviser has meetings with the ministries on a need basis." The important question of climate change too, while hotly debated the world over, has been ignored, with the PM's council on climate change not having met in more than three years. Constituted in June 2008, the committee was to coordinate national action to combat climate change. The council comprised three missions, two of which - on sustainable agriculture and sustainable habitat - met only once each in 2010. A third mission on green India met once in February 2011. Expressing her disappointment, Sunita Narain, director general of the centre for science and environment (CSE) and a member of the climate change council, said," "It is unfortunate that the PM's council hasn't met in over three years. The issues the council would have looked at have taken a backseat now." Scant attention was paid to employment creation for the youth too, with the PM's national council on skill development, meant to create jobs for millions of youth, last met more than two years ago, in January 2012. Padma Shri awardee, Laila Tayabji, a member of the council, said, "I feel the momentum is missing in UPA-2. I am disappointed because the PM took so much interest in the beginning but it all fizzled out later."