NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the eighth governing council assembly of Niti Aayog on Saturday on the theme of ‘Viksit Bharat @2047: Role of Team India’ on the new Convention Centre in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. As the chairman of NITI Aayog, PM Modi will preside over the assembly. PM Modi will deliberate on points associated to well being, ability growth, girls empowerment and infrastructure growth, with an intention to make India a developed nation by 2047.
“Eight prominent themes will be discussed during the day-long Meeting including (i) Viksit Bharat@2047, (ii) Thrust on MSMEs, (iii) Infrastructure and Investments, (iv) Minimising Compliances, (v) Women Empowerment, (vi) Health and Nutrition, (vii) Skill Development, and (viii) Gati Shakti for area development and social infrastructure,” the NITI Aayog said.
“The Meeting will see the participation of Chief Ministers/Lt Governors of all States and Union Territories, Union Ministers as ex-officio Members, and the Vice Chairman and Members of NITI Aayog”, it said. Kerala’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Rajasthan’s Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot will not be attending the NITI Aayog Council assembly presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the nationwide capital on Saturday. CM Gehlot has cited well being causes for not attending the assembly, whereas CM Vijayan has not given any particular motive for his absence. Other than him, Delhi’s CM Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab’s CM Bhagwant Mann, Telangana’s CM Ok Chandrashekhar Rao, West Bengal’s CM Mamata Banerjee and Bihar’s CM Nitish Kumar are anticipated to skip the assembly on Saturday.
As a preparatory prelude to the eighth Governing Council Meeting, the second Chief Secretaries Conference was held in January 2023, the place these themes have been extensively mentioned. “Wide-ranging stakeholder consultations and brainstorming sessions with subject experts, academia and practitioners were held prior to the Conference in order to gain well-rounded grassroots-level perspectives,” it additional mentioned.
The 2nd Chief Secretaries Conference, attended by the Prime Minister, introduced collectively choose Secretaries from the Government of India and Chief Secretaries from all States/UTs who proactively participated by sharing thematic finest practices and coverage insights, the discharge said. As the world’s fifth-largest financial system and essentially the most populous nation, India is at a stage in its financial growth trajectory the place it may possibly obtain accelerated development over the subsequent 25 years, the discharge mentioned.
In this context, the eighth Governing Council Meeting gives a possibility to create a roadmap for Viksit Bharat by 2047 by which the Centre and States can work collectively as Team India. This will play an vital position within the worldwide context as India’s socioeconomic development and transformation can have a constructive and multiplier impact on the world at massive, it mentioned. The NITI Aayog additional mentioned, “This 8th Governing Council Meeting is also being held in the backdrop of India’s G20 Presidency. India’s G20 motto ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’ conveys its civilisational values and its vision of the role of each country in creating the future of our planet.”
“The emerging world has immense hopes for India’s ability to provide values-based leadership and its capacity to deliver development at scale. The Centre and States have played a significant role in achieving this distinctive development trajectory,” the Aayog mentioned. India’s development is intently interlinked with the expansion of States. As talked about by the Prime Minister in his 76th Independence Day tackle, ‘When our States develop, India grows’.
This would be the guiding spirit of India’s inclusive and sustainable imaginative and prescient for the subsequent quarter century. In order to attain this imaginative and prescient, the eighth Governing Council Meeting would supply a platform for strengthening Centre-State cooperation and forging partnerships for attaining the objective of Viksit Bharat @2047.
