Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Plan Panel clears Mizoram’s Rs 2,500-crore annual Plan for current fiscal

May2 :
The Planning Commission today approved Mizoram’s Rs 2,500-crore annual Plan for the current fiscal, which is 8.7 per cent higher than the outlay for 2012-13.

The state's annual Plan for 2013-14 was finalised in New Delhi at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Mizoram Chief Minister Pu Lalthanhawla, an official statement said.

Briefing the commission on plan performance and priorities of the state during 12th Plan, the chief minister said the state has maintained fiscal discipline. He said that since 2003-04 revenue surpluses have been maintained and state has introduced new power policy, revised industrial policy and adopted new land use and management policy to give necessary impetus to the development strategy. He also sought Commission’s support in evolving a workable rain water harvesting programme for the state.