Kamal Nath appointed as new ex-officio chairman of Planning Commission

January 1, 2013

Prime Minister’s office has re-constituted the Planning Commission by appointing parliamentary affairs and urban development minister Kamal Nath as the new ex-officio member of the Plan panel in place of rural development minister Jairam Ramesh.
Other ex-officio members are:

Finance Minister P Chidambaram
Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar
Home minister Sushilkumar Shinde
Health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad
Chemicals and fertilisers minister M K Alagiri
Communications minister Kapil Sibal
Law minister Ashwani Kumar
HRD minister M M Pallam Raju
Minister of state for planning Rajeev Shukla

National Development Council (NDC) will be headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The Council is the supreme policy-making body in the country. Besides central ministers, the Commission’s members include all Chief Ministers and regular members.

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