- Development is not just intelligence, development is an ongoing activity. It is a very complex process. Usually, development takes place in two ways.
(I) Naturally occurring development in a natural way (2) Planned development Planned development which is done consciously by the state, in this development two things are seen to develop.
- In this development, social development is the development of the organization of the society and its functioning.
- While economic growth refers to national income, per capita income, creation of new employment opportunities, industrialization and urbanization.
- The "Planning Commission" was formed in 1950 to achieve the goals of socio-economic development in India.
- The Planning Commission is a constitutionally autonomous body.
- Through the five-year plan, the country achieved many achievements in the economic and social spheres.
- However, the new trends of liberalization, privatization and globalization and the emergence of a new economy in India after 1991 arose the need for a more modern institution with more space than this, which gave birth to a new body called the Policy Commission instead of the Planning Commission.
- The National Institute for Transforming India. (NITI)
- The Government of India is a think tank for policy making.
- On January 1, 2015, the Policy Commission was established under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India, Srinivasa Bhai Modiji.
- The objectives of setting up the Policy Commission are as follows:
- To formulate policies related to social and economic issues of the country through democratic deliberation and guidance of experts.
- Changes are happening globally.
- Then India was given a proper place in the world.
- Involvement in the formulation of economic policy of the State Government and encouragement to form partners, due to which the approach from the grassroots to the top is exposed.
- Which is part of the decentralization of power.
- It has called for the development of a "co-operative competitive federation" to improve relations between the center and the state.
- To give proper representation to every state government for the development of the country.
- Diverse India has different stages of social and economic development in each state. Therefore, the policy commission considers that the approach of a single form of planning commission is not suitable for their development.
- To achieve this goal, the Policy Commission is a think tank as well as a think tank.
- Policy Commission Organizations:
- The Prime Minister of India will be the Chairman of the Policy Commission.
- Board of Governors comprising Chief Ministers of all the States and Deputy Governors of the Union Territories.
- The Regional Council will be composed of the Chief Ministers of the States and the Deputy Governors of the Union Territories.
- It meets to consider specific issues of more than one state or region and other matters.
- The meeting will be chaired by the Chairman of the Policy Commission or his representative.
- Specialists with relevant knowledge and practice in such an organization will act as special invitees.
- Member of Policy Commission:
1. Chairman: The Chairman is the Prime Minister of India.
2. Former three members: including economist, former head of DRDO and agricultural experts.
3. Part-time members: It will have ex-officio members from a research institute of a maximum of two leading universities and from another related institute.
- The members of this room time will change in turn.
4. Ex-officio members: Four members appointed by the Prime Minister from the Cabinet.
5. Chief Executive Officer: The Secretary to the Government of India shall be appointed by the Prime Minister for a fixed term.
6. Additional Secretary is appointed as required.
- Based on the above, some of the salient features of the Policy Commission can be deduced.
- The Policy Commission is an institution set up by the Constitution.
- The Policy Commission handles the work of the Planning Commission and acts as a think tank for the country.
- More dynamic than the old Planning Commission and working to link different states and territories.
- Instead of the central government planning, the council of chief ministers of the states and deputy governors in the union territories formulates various policies and programs for socio-economic development.
- As a result of the new industrial policy seen in India.
- Liberalization is expected from the Policy Commission to accelerate the process of privatization and globalization and to give India a fair place in the competitive market.
- The Center and the states work together in the country.
- An organization working for its own development by forgetting internal differences.
- Working for the development of the country with a vision for the next 15 years.
- It remains to be seen how effective this organization will be with the passage of time.
- This will have to wait for time; as such an agency has become indispensable to grind a federal system like India to keep pace with the changed global situation.