State Planning Board reconstituted

Wednesday, August 10, 2011: The Planning Board in Kerala has been re-constituted with former Union Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekharan as its Vice Chairman.
Briefing the reporters, Oommen Chandy, who is also the Chairman of the Board, said that Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Managing Director Dr E Sreedharan, former Technopark CEO C Vijayaraghavan and former CII Secretary-General Tarun Das are the non-official members of the Board.
A draft report of the Approach Plan for the 12th Plan would be completed in the first week of September for which a priority discussion was held, he said.
‘Emerging Kerala-2012,’ a Global Investors Meet would be held in Ernakulam for which KSIDC has been appointed as the nodal agency. The Regional Centre of IGNOU has been allotted one hectare of land at Muttathara here. About 2.22 hectares of land was allotted to a Central School at Chennerkara village in Pathanamthitta.
An amount of Rs six crore has been earmarked for the Khadi Board as Festival Rebate.
Farmers having one hectare of land would be given a monthly pension of Rs 300 from August 17. It also given sanction for the recommendation of the 13th Finance Committee report.

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