Summary Record of Discussions of the National Development Council (NDC) Meetings. Five Decades of National Building (Fifty NDC Meetings). Vol-1 (1st to 14th Meetings)

Abstract

The National Development Council (NDC) has a special role in our federal polity. It is the apex body for decision making and deliberations on development matters, presided over by the Prime Minister of India and comprising of all Union Ministers, Chief Ministers of all the States and Administrators of Union Territories and Members of the Planning Commission. Ministers of State with independent charge are also invited to the deliberations of the Council. The functions of the Council are (i) to prescribe guidelines for the formulation of the National Plan, including the assessment of resources for the Plan; (ii) to consider the National Plan as formulated by the Planning Commission; (iii) to consider important questions of social and economic policy affecting national development; and (iv) to review the working of the Plan from time to time and to recommend such measures as are necessary for achieving the aims and targets set out in the National Plan.