Addressing the 8th governing council meeting of NITI Aayog, PM Modi stated that when states grow, India grows, emphasizing on the need to evolve a common vision to achieve a Vikasit Bharat by 2047.
The council, which is the apex body of NITI Aayog, includes all chief ministers, lieutenant governors of union territories and several union ministers. The PM is the chairman of NITI Aayog.
Some of the top ministers of Modi’s cabinet who attended the meeting included finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, home minister Amit Shah, education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and commerce minister Piyush Goyal among others.
Deliberating on the skills development agenda, the Aayog said India is one of the youngest nations in the world with 20% of the global youth population. “This gives India an opportunity to become the skill capital of the world,” it said in a tweet. “By 2030, India’s gig and platform economy is estimated to expand to 23.5 million workers,” it said.
Further, deliberating on the GatiShakti initiative of the government for area development and social infrastructure, the Aayog said PM GatiShakti NMP uses a ‘whole of government’ approach for infrastructure planning & implementation based on six pillars, namely comprehensiveness, prioritization, optimization, synchronization, analytics and dynamism
“GatiShakti with nearly 1,600 layers of data ensures evidence-based policy making in the infrastructure sector,” it said, adding it also ensures effective socio-economic planning and adoption of an area-development approach.The 8th governing council meeting of the Aayog aimed at charting out a roadmap for a Vikasit Bharat by 2047 where the centre and states collaborate as Team India. “This will play a key role in the global context as India’s socio-economic growth and transformation have the power to produce a positive multiplier effect.
Some of the chief ministers who have boycotted the governing council meeting on Saturday included Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejariwal, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar.
