CMP does provide room for reform: Montek

  • 05/07/2004

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

The Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said that there was enough elbowroom within the framework of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government to carry out hard decisions and push for economic reforms to realise the seven to eight per cent economic growth projected in the CMP. He said that the commission with its seven members would undertake mid-term review of the Tenth Plan (2002-07) programmes. He said policies and programmes pertaining to different sectors, including rural infrastructure, agriculture, education and health, would be looked into in order to see how best they could be reoriented or redesigned to reflect the CMP's objectives. He said the CMP talked about attracting private investment and public-private partnership to realise the economy's growth potential.