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Make next
Five Year Plan panchayat-friendly, PM urged
Sunday April 24, 2011 07:43:16 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was Sunday told by an official that
the current Five Year Plan was not panchayat-friendly and demanded
that the next plan should give a central role to the panchayati
raj institutions in the implementation of rural schemes.
A.N.P Sinha, secretary, ministry of panchayati raj, who was
delivering the vote of thanks at the Panchayat Diwas function
here, used the occasion to demand a greater thrust on the role of
panchayti raj institutions which are institutionalised in a
three-tier set up at the village, intermediate and district
levels.
Sinha urged the prime minister to give a central role to
panchayats in implementing rural schemes.
The prime minister heads the Planning Commission, which is in the
process of finalising an approach paper to the Twelfth Five Year
Plan that begins in April 2012.
Sinha also urged United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson
Sonia Gandhi to focus on panchayati raj in the National Advisory
Council (NAC).
The NAC is headed by Gandhi and makes policy recommendations to
the government on issues taken up by it.
"Panchayati raj should be the next agenda of NAC," Sinha said. His
remarks evoked a nodding smile from Gandhi.
The conference was addressed by both the prime minister and Gandhi
apart from Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Vilasrao
Deshmukh.
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