The NITI Aayog’s 9th Governing Council meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, began here on Saturday, several chief ministers from opposition-governed states unanimously decided to skip the meet.
The focus of the meeting is on making India a developed nation by 2047. It aims to foster participative governance and collaboration between the Centre and state governments, enhancing the quality of life for both rural and urban populations by strengthening the delivery mechanisms of government interventions.
The council, the apex body of NITI Aayog, includes all state chief ministers, lieutenant governors of Union Territories, and several Union ministers.
However, chief ministers of Congress-ruled states, along with Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister MK Stalin, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab and Delhi governments, have said they will boycott the meeting.
This move was decided to protest the 2024-25 Union Budget, highlighting it as “discriminatory” towards non NDA ruled state governments
However, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren are in Delhi to attend the event. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, will also not be attending. The state will be represented at the meeting by deputy chief ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, officials said.
Prime Minister Modi is the Chairman of NITI Aayog
PM Modi will be joined by chief ministers and lieutenant governors of states and union territories, union ministers as ex-officio members and special invitees, and the vice chairman and members of the NITI Aayog.
The meeting will focus on recommendations of the 3rd National Conference of Chief Secretaries held in December last year.
Five Key Theme of The Meeting
During the conference, recommendations were made on five key themes–drinking water: access, quantity, and quality; electricity: quality, efficiency, and reliability; health: accessibility, affordability, and quality of care; schooling: access and quality; and land and property: accessibility, digitization, registration, and mutation.
NITI Aayog 2023
In 2023, NITI Aayog was entrusted with the task of consolidating the 10 sectoral thematic visions into a combined vision for Viksit Bharat @2047.
The vision encompasses various aspects of development, including economic growth, social progress, environmental sustainability, and good governance, among others.
