Planning still relevant in coalition era: Pant

  • 11/05/2004

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

The role and remit of the Plan panel continue to be "relevant in the evolution of our polity, coalition government at the Centre with different political parties ruling the States where its coordinating capacity could be of immense strength," the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Mr K.C. Pant, said. "As the economic climate alters, reforms become important, the Planning Commission has been pushing up reforms in infrastructure domain, both in physical and social, so that the benefits of development could be broadly distributed in he process." Mr Pant singled out Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana (RSVY) for backward development region in Bihar and Orissa with 100 per cent grant from Centre and empowered sub-committee on e-governance as the major initiatives of the Tenth Plan.