Attending the 64th Plenary of NECat New Delhi today Tuki said the role of NEC as the regional planning body should assume primacy more than anything else, according to an official communique.
The Chief Minister said with the coming in of NITI Aayog there has been a fundamental shift in the way plan resources are allocated to states.
In this changed scenario, the most affected are the Special Category States (SCS), which were fully dependant on Planning Commission in steering development endeavours.
He said as many as 10 Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) have been delinked which includes NCA, SCA, SPA and ACA that formed a major chunk of Plan fund for the Special Category States.
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Further, the sharing pattern in 13 critical schemes is being proposed to be changed and as such the Special Category States, which enjoyed the 90:10 pattern of funding, will suffer.
The Chief Minister suggested that the Special Status accorded to states like Arunachal Pradesh be continued and the funding pattern of 90:10 for CSS be restored.
He pointed that majority of NEC's efforts and times are consumed in issues like project selection, evaluation, sanction, monitoring etc.
The plan fund allocated to the Council can be suitably utilised for capacity building-both Govt officials and private entrepreneurs in the respective sectors and monitoring, he said.
"The NEC must therefore slowly withdraw from project sanction and utililse the funds on capacity building, policy research, entrepreneurship, etc," Tuki said.