9 June : Asserting that the Planning commission would focus essentially on rural area development, Deputy Chairman MS Ahluwalia said that many more ambitious programmes would be announced in the next phase of Bharat Nirman.
Montek Singh Ahluwalia said that organised retail should focus on perishable products.Speaking to reporters in the capital on Monday, he said that the food security act will be introduced very soon.
Economy to grow by at least 6.7 pc in FY’10: MontekWith economic conditions turning better compared to that three months ago, the Planning Commission today said economy should record at least 6.7 per cent growth rate this fiscal, the same as was witnessed in 2008-09.
"What I can say is we should at least be aiming at the same growth as achieved last year and I think we could do a little better," Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia told reporters in press conference in New Delhi.
Last week he was reappointed as deputy chief of the Planning Commission.Many people say 7 per cent growth is not impossible this fiscal and some believes it could be better, he said.Lots of it depends on how global economy behaves in the second half of this fiscal.
Everybody expects that sharp downturn is coming to an end, but people are not sure how good a rebound we are going to see in the world economy, he said.