Annual plan to concentrate on eco growth

The approach to 11th Plan 2007-12 and strategies designed to consolidate the gains made in 10th Plan analyzing performance of economic development process was held at Hotel Japfu, Kohima on May 2 which was attended by (SP-NE) Pr. Adviser Planning Commission Firoza Mehrotra, Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs to Nagaland Jayati Chandra, top officials and HoDs of the state.
Pr. Adviser (SP-NE) Planning Commission Firoza Mehrotra said the planning process was directed to economic growth with special emphasis on productivity towards integration of departments from earlier fractured departmental approaches. He added that planning process was therefore made more cohesive as distinct from earlier practices of mechaniTcal compilation of schemes and programme. He felt the need to make an attempt to clearly outline the priority areas for development and setting of economic agenda and resource management plan.
Also speaking at the occasion, Secretary Ministry of Youth Affairs to Nagaland Jayati Chandra said economic progress would have no meaning unless it affected the life of individual especially in context of the society which was becoming a part of the modern global society and was further traumatised to gain more economic and human development which was the need of the hour. However, state plan reckoned that not all economic strategies evolved at centre may be related to actual development needs of remote states like Nagaland with its peculiar history, economic structure and geographical context.
State Planning department in a brief write- up on Annual Plan 2009-10 brought out some aspect which comprised objectives during 11th year plan which include sustaining of high rate of economic growth, special emphasis on commercial scale productivity in agriculture, intensive development of post harvest management technologies, providing greater livelihood and employment opportunities and building capacities for gainful existence, empowering people through better education and health services, creating better infrastructure for enabling faster economic growth rate, creating institution for building growth, creating appropriate environment for investment and enhancing the flow institutional finance in state, protecting environment and creating an atmosphere for sustainable development.