PM Modi to chair 6th governing council meeting of NITI Aayog on Saturday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the sixth meeting of the governing council of NITI Aayog on February 20 at 10:30 am. through video conferencing. 

"The agenda of the meeting includes deliberations on agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, human resource development, service delivery at grassroots level and health and nutrition," a government release said on Thursday.

The sixth meeting will witness the entry of Ladakh for the first time, in addition to the participation of Jammu and Kashmir as a union territory (UT). Apart from that, other UTs headed by administrators have also been invited to join the meeting. 

The meeting will also be attended by the ex-officio members of the governing council, union ministers, NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar, CEO Amitabh Kant, and other senior officials of government of India.

The governing council presents a platform to discuss inter-sectoral, inter-departmental and federal issues. It comprises the Prime Minister, Chief Ministers of States and Union Territories (UTs), with Legislatures and Lt Governors of other UTs.