TS Govt constitutes State Planning Board Hyderabad, Dec 18 (INN): The State Government on Thursday issued orders for the constitution of Telangana State Planning Board.
The Board, to be headed by the Chief Minister, has been constituted to strengthen the planning machinery in order to provide necessary intellectual inputs for efficient utilization of State's resources and to evolve a perspective plan on development of the State to ensure inclusive growth.
The Finance Minister will be ex-officio Vice-Chairman while the regular Vice-Chairman will be nominated by the government. It may be mentioned that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao has already nominated Singireddy Niranjan Reddy for the Vice-Chairman's post.
While the Chief Secretary and Principal Secretary (Finance) will be its members, the Principal Secretary (Planning) will be Member-Secretary. Experts from various fields, as decided by the government, will be co-opted as members of the Board.
As per the orders issued on Thursday, the State Planning Board will advise the State Government on creation of appropriate institutions and procedures to achieve the objectives of growth.
It will monitor and evaluate the levels of economic development, including the implementation of various developmental schemes and departmental activities.
It will advise the State Government on any matter relating to the development of the State and formulation of annual plans and perspective plans, including the Five Year Plans.
The Board will meet as frequently and for such duration, as is required. The Planning Department has been directed to provide Secretarial support for the conduct of the meetings.
The State Government has asked all departments to extend their full co-operation to the Board by providing expeditiously all the statistical data and such other information as is required from time to time.
The departments have also been asked to keep the Board informed about the policy initiatives taken both at Central and State level, in the respective sectors.
News Posted: 18 December, 2014
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