New Delhi, July 23: The nation’s highest policymaking body, the National Development Council (NDC), will focus on five key areas, including the Naxal menace, power reforms and water crisis, at its meeting tomorrow.
The NDC, which has been convened to approve the mid-term appraisal (MTA) of the 11th Plan, will also consider the main issues of the 12th Plan (2012-17), Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told reporters this evening.
“A supplementary agenda note has been circulated and a more focused approach would be adopted in five critical areas –agriculture, tribal development (Naxalism),water management, urbanisation and power reforms,” Ahluwalia said, adding the note has been prepared on the direction of the Prime Minister.
The mid-term appraisal, which had scaled down the average annual growth target for the 11th Plan from 9 to 8.
–Agencies