Kamal Nath replaces Ramesh as planning commission member
27 Dec 2012 7:32 AM IST
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh has ceased to be ex-officio member of the Planning Commission and has been replaced by Minister of Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Kamal Nath.
‘Yes. There is a reconstitution of the Planning Commission. That was done by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)’, Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said when asked whether Ramesh was no no longer an ex-officio member of the Commission.
Commission’s Secretary Sindhushree Khullar said this was being done in view of the added emphasis given by government on urban development, she said, adding ‘schemes like MNREGA is already taking care of the rural development’.
PM Manmohan Singh will chair the NDC, which is the apex policy-making body in the country.
Besides central ministers, the Commission’s members include all Chief Ministers and regular members. The other ex-officio members of the Commission, are P Chidambaram, Sharad Pawar, Sushilkumar Shinde, Ghulam Nabi Azad, M K Alagiri, Kapil Sibal, Ashwani Kumar, M M Pallam Raju and Rajeev Shukla.
‘Yes. There is a reconstitution of the Planning Commission. That was done by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)’, Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said when asked whether Ramesh was no no longer an ex-officio member of the Commission.
Commission’s Secretary Sindhushree Khullar said this was being done in view of the added emphasis given by government on urban development, she said, adding ‘schemes like MNREGA is already taking care of the rural development’.
PM Manmohan Singh will chair the NDC, which is the apex policy-making body in the country.
Besides central ministers, the Commission’s members include all Chief Ministers and regular members. The other ex-officio members of the Commission, are P Chidambaram, Sharad Pawar, Sushilkumar Shinde, Ghulam Nabi Azad, M K Alagiri, Kapil Sibal, Ashwani Kumar, M M Pallam Raju and Rajeev Shukla.
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