'Our competitiveness with China is very important.' 'If the exchange rate depreciates, it is good for us because it helps in our competitiveness.'
'What is most distressing is that the revival of the economy, creation of more employment, and reducing poverty are not on the agenda of the government at all.' 'We are an economy on the verge of a demographic disaster.'
The meeting was attended by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and chief ministers with the exception of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Suggestions made by the different experts have been noted and would be forwarded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Ahluwalia was married to former deputy chairperson of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia and is survived by her husband and two sons.
Even if the new body focuses on long-term planning, it is unlikely to do so through five-year Plans.
'The Congress saw Rahul as the natural leader of the party and wanted him to take a larger role'
India's Planning Commission has 31 divisions and seven attached offices, which include the Unique Identification Authority of India and Independent Evaluation Office.
'A lot will depend on the first Aayog and the power it derives.'
The government also announced creation of a special open forum on the website mygov.nic.in for suggestions on the new institution.
Erstwhile Planning Commission Secretary Sindhushree Khullar is believed to have been appointed as CEO of the newly formed NITI Aayog.
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The number of poor in the country declined to 27 crore (270 million) in 2011-12, from 40.74 crore in 2004-05, Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs Rajeev Shukla said on Wednesday.
Assessment note says panel acts as control commission, especially in fund allocations to states.
Would Ukraine be such a pushover if it had that nuclear stockpile?' asks Shekhar Gupta.
The Aayog has been mandated to serve as a policy think-tank for the central as well as state governments
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Planning Commission to prepare workable models for implementing the proposed universal health coverage programme.
Your promise to protect bankers for their commercial decisions is a huge confidence booster, but how does one define a commercial decision? Are our investigative agencies well equipped to dissect lending decisions of bankers?
NITI Aayog was set up as a think-tank for the Centre and states on January 1 replacing over six-decade old Planning Commission.
Her research was focused on urban development, macro-economic reforms, industrial development, and social sector development issues in India.
The Planning Commission of India has released the official Gross State Domestic Product figures. The map above shows the GSDP of each state in the year 2013-14 in Rs crore.
The Planning Commission of India has released the official Gross State Domestic Product figures. The map above shows the GSDP of each state in the year 2013-14 in Rs crore.
Singh, who is Chairman of the Planning Commission, made a case for reorienting the body to remain relevant in the globalised world.
New body to replace Plan panel might retain 40% of existing staff
The map below shows the classification of this score into Mostly Dirty, Somewhat Clean and Mostly Clean.
Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge, speaking on the Motion of Thanks on the President's address, charged the government with not delivering on its various promises, including generating two crore jobs per year.
'Growth is predicated on the misery of large sections of people.' 'Maybe Hindutva will be used to suppress any such unrest.'
Poor predictability, credibility and effectiveness of fiscal performance have been key reasons for successive governments failing to deliver on their promises.
Government and the Planning Commission had earlier projected a growth rate of 9 per cent during 2011-12, up from 8.6 per cent in the previous fiscal.
The weapon carrying security personnel pushed journalists, who retaliated with more pushes and shoves.
In July, the Planning Commission said that the number of people living below poverty line has come down both in rural as well as urban areas.
The Planning Commission was better than the Niti Aayog as it used to take up the issues of the states with the ministries concerned.
The Modi govt is keen to replace the Planning Commission with a more powerful body.
Private power producers wanted the sub-market domestic coal prices to be averaged out with international price of imported coal so as to have a uniform fuel price and remove the disadvantage new projects faced as compared to older ones.
Proportion of people living below the poverty line came down from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05 to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12.
Behind the GBS figures, to be revealed in the Budget next week -- lies a fierce tug of war between Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh eventually threw his weight behind the finance minister.
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has apologised to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the unruly mob behaviour outside his office targeting her and her Cabinet colleagues and said steps need to be taken to avoid such situations in the future.
Though the controversy between the Planning Commission and the road transport ministry is old, the trigger for Road Transport and Highways Minister Kamal Nath calling the Commission an 'armchair advisor' seems to be a document of the Planning Commission.
Questioning the methodology of CSO in computing economic growth projections, the Planning Commission today said it has ignored the rising growth trend while working out estimates for 2012-13.
Plans to increase price progressively.
The two bodies have been fighting a running battle over the targets for construction of highways.
