NITI Aayog must focus on holistic human development: Goel

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, May 22

“To take care of the less cared for and use the less employed manpower is a challenge for NITI Aayog, the new avtar of the Planning Commission. We have been careless in using manpower, which needs measurement with a sense of responsibility. The data on socio-economic indicators, including population, is the greatest challenge. There is a strong case for holistic human resource development (HRD) policy in India,” said Dr MM Goel, Professor of Economics and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kurukshetra University, here today while talking to this correspondent on Challenges for NITI Aayog. He met Chief Minister Harish Rawat and presented a copy of Anu-Gita to him in Dehradun today.

“NITI Aayog needs freedom with budgetary provisions in order to build the trust, faith and confidence of people more than the Planning Commission. We need to conceptualise the middle class and formulate relevant policies,” said Goel.

For achieving more than expected through ‘Make in India’, let us promote ‘Make in India’ without the FDI by using our potential in agriculture, by selling ‘gur’ as an appetiser and desert to the entire world, he said.

To prove its mettle in policy formulation, the NITI Aayog needs to establish its priorities among 13 objectives with a clear understanding, said Goel.