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New Delhi / Aagrtala, Dec 5 (TIWN): Today a panel discussion held in Loksabha TV on different issues like Niti commission, Malnutrition, Procurement of fighter Aircrafts. Tripura MP Jitendra Choudhury while talking in panel discussion along with Ram Prasad Sarma,MP,BJP Assam, expressed his views on 64 year old planning commission certainly need restructuring. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has convened a meeting of Chief Ministers of all states Sunday to hear their views on the restructuring of the Planning Commission.
The Planning Commission was conceived by India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru who thought India's goals and objectives can be best addressed with a planned economy, an idea he borrowed from the then Soviet Union. Accordingly, it was formed March 15, 1950, and with it were born the Five-Year Plans, which went into formulation from 1951.
Tripura MP Jiten Caudhury mostly spported Prime Minister Modi's initiatives on restructuring 64 yr old Planning Commission.
"Detailed consultations have been held with experts and economists and within the Planning Commission itself on its restructuring," Modi said Friday in his first intervention during question hour in the Lok Sabha.
“We are just taking forward this process of giving shape to a new body,” PM added
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