Chief Secretary Alok Kumar Jain has directed the officers of Planning and Finance Departments to finalize the proposal of Annual Plan 2012-13 estimated at Rs. 8212.60 crore so that it could be forwarded to Central Planning Commission.
In a Review meeting of Annual Plan at Secretariat on Thursday with officers of Planning and Finance Departments, Chief Secretary instructed the officers to consider closely all the aspects while finalizing the Annual Planning proposal and ensure no confusion and paradox prevailed amongst different departments. He instructed them to put more impetus on the areas where more funds were needed so that maximum amount could be received. He asked them to give priority to the projects related to the public interests and also to give more importance to project areas like horticulture, fruit-vegetable processing, health, medical, education, infrastructure development, quality education in hill areas, tourism, science and technology.
Chief Secretary has directed the officers to host a meeting and give final shape to the proposal so that it could be presented to the Chief Minister for his perusal. Proposal pertaining to 11th Five Year Plan (2012-17) were also discussed during the meeting.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary Planning S Ramaswami, Secretary Finance Radha Raturi, Additional Secretary Finance MC Joshi and Kunwar Singh, and Director State Planning Commission Harshvardhan Uniyal.