The meet will be held between Jan 5 to 7, with the PM Modi presiding over the deliberations during Jan 6 and 7
Beginning on Thursday Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over a brainstorming session with Chief Secretaries of all states over how to develop districts as engines of growth so as to achieve the target of becoming a $5 trillion economy.
Sources informed that the main focus of the meeting would be how to develop districts across the country into engines of growth. Chief Secretaries could be asked to come up with ideas to develop districts as models of development to achieve the target of making India a $5 trillion economy, sources said.
According to highly-placed sources, the meeting will be held between January 5 to 7, with the Prime Minister presiding over the deliberations during January 6 and 7.
The timeline for India becoming a $5 trillion economy was earlier 2024-25, which now has been revised to 2026-27, owing to disruptions caused by Corona virus pandemic.
NITI Aayog CEO Parameswaran Iyer will inaugurate the meeting on January 5 at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (Pusa) campus in the national capital.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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Unless these civil servants are held accountable with serious consequences, things will move only at snail pace at the best and that too if we are lucky.
India in motor mode……. Need to push civil bureaucrats to deliver or to be shunted out.