New Delhi: Chief Minister Mukul Sangma will arrive here on Saturday to attend a meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that will attempt to seek views on the structure and functioning of the revamped Planning Commission.
The meeting has been convened at the official residence of the Prime Minister.
Modi in his first Independence Day speech on August 15 last had announced that the 64-year-old Planning Commission would be abolished and replaced with a more relevant institution.
The meeting will obtain opinions about the new body that would be formed after abolishing the existing Planning Commission.
The Government has decided to replace the Planning Commission through a new resolution in the Union Cabinet, Union Minister for Planning, Rao Inderjit Singh said on Friday in reply to a query from Shillong Lok Sabha member Vincent H Pala.