PM calls for investor-friendly charter, zero poverty by ’47
Narendra Modi called for a zero poverty target while emphasising that states should play an active role in making India a developed nation by 2047. He mooted creation of river grids and an investor-friendly charter to rank states on their ability to attract investments, at the ninth governing council meeting of the Niti Aayog.
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The meeting was attended by 20 chief ministers and the lieutenant governors of six Union Territories. Chief ministers of 10 states, including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Karnataka, Telangana, Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Puducherry, did not attend the meeting over what they said was bias in the July 23 budget.
Modi called on the states to provide an investor-friendly environment and directed the Niti Aayog to prepare an “investment-friendly charter” of parameters, which would include policies, programmes and processes to be put in place for attracting investments. Niti Aayog vice chairman Suman Bery, briefing the media about the meeting, said the Prime Minister wanted states to compete for foreign direct investment (FDI) so that overseas inflows reach all of them, especially those that are less successful.
prepare an ‘investment-friendly charter’ of parameters which would include policies, programmes and processes to be put in place for attracting investments,” the think tank said in a statement. “The states should be
