PM, Jaitley to meet Niti Aayog officials, experts today to discuss Budget

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and finance minister Arun Jaitley will get views on the Budget for 2017-18, job creation through skill development and other issues at a meeting with experts on Tuesday.

There will be 13 people —from the NITI Aayog, economists and others with expertise — who will make presentations. The Aayog wanted to hold a pre-Budget meeting with the PM but the latter’s office suggested the agenda be broadened to the overall economy, sources said. 

The meeting is to cover job creation and skill development, agriculture and issues for the Budget, though participants would raise others, too. The