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Nation 8th Governing Council Meeting

Build at State and District Levels

A strong team for developed India

India, the world's largest democracy and 5th largest economy, is growing
rapidly on the path of economic development. About two years ago, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi made the resolution to make a developed India
by 2047 from the ramparts of the Red Fort, for which he is leaving no
stone unturned. The Panch Pran, Aatmanirbhar Bharat, and Gati Shakti are
fueling India's aspirations. The main agenda of the 8th meeting of
the Governing Council of NITI Aayog on May 27 was also 'Developed
India in 2047: Role of Team India'.

o fulfil the resolution of a developed India, it Team India, resolving differences and charting a
is very important for the states to develop. common path to progress and prosperity.
TPrime Minister Narendra Modi repeatedly The Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog
says in several programmes that the resolution was held at the new convention centre at Pragati
of a developed India will be fulfilled only through Maidan in New Delhi. The meeting was chaired by
the development of the states with competitive Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attended by
federalism. The success of initiatives like the the chief ministers and lieutenant governors of 19
NITI Aayog Aspirational District Programme and states and six union territories. Prime Minister Modi
Aspirational Block Programme are good examples said in the meeting that the vision of a developed
of competitive federalism. The objective of this India is not the vision of any private or small group,
programme is to raise the standard of living of the but it is the vision of 140 crore countrymen. In such
citizens in the 500 backward development blocks a situation, the Centre, States, and Union Territories
of the state to parity with the state average. In should work as Team India to fulfil the dreams and
fact, NITI Aayog, as a think tank of the Government aspirations of a developed India. NITI Aayog can
of India, was formed on January 1, 2015, and the play an important role in developing the strategies
Governing Council was formed on February 16, of the states for the next 25 years.
2015, so that the Centre and the States became The kind of socio-economic development that

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