Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday brainstorm with experts in the maiden meeting of NITI Aayog to find ways to boost economy as Government prepares to present its first full-fledged Budget later this month.
The meeting will be attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and experts such as Mukesh Butani, Nitin Desai, Parthasarathi Shome, Rajiv lall, Swaminathan Aiyer, Vijay Kelkar, V Reddy, among others.
The Government set up the National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) by replacing Soviet-era Planning Commission on January 1.
Government has said that the meeting has been called for "interaction on the subject of the state of economy and for inviting suggestions on the forthcoming budget." Jaitley will present the General Budget on February 28.
The Prime Minister is the Chairman of the NITI Aayog and its Vice-Chairman is Arvind Panagariya.
Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, Aayog's full time members Bibek Debroy and V K Saraswat, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh, ex-RBI Governor Bimal Jalan, Subir Gokarn, Ashok Gulati and G N Bajpai will also be present in the meeting.