Empowerment of people is achieved when income level climbs:

Niti Ayogvice chairmanDr Arvind Panagariya today said true empowerment of people can be achieved only when their income level goes up for which, both the Centre and the states must work in tandem.
Inaugurating the three-day Odisha Vikash Conclave here, Panagariya suggestedthat theCentre and state governmentmust work in tandem toensure various schemes and programmes aimed at economicgrowthofthepeoplewereimplementedin the right spirit.
Panagariya said the best way to enable people to increase their income was to empower them with quality education.
"There can be no better way other than imparting quality education to people to empower themachievehigher growth rate. Oncetheyare empowered, they willafford for good food, clothandhouses which will contribute to the building of a great nation," Panagariya said.

When economy grows, it generates income and directly empowers people. Apart from meeting their food, cloth and shelter, they make good spending in healthcare and quality education, he said.
Noting that Odisha has made considerable progress in poverty reduction in the last few years and achieved higher economic growth rate in recent years, Panagariya said this tempo should be maintained.

Addressing the function, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in order to empower the people, the state should think of a sustainable economic model, instead of relief-centric model.
"Relief centric model can bring temporary happiness, but it cannot bring sustainable development," he said.

Odisha's Health and Family Welfare Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak and NALCO CMD T K Chand also spoke on the occasion.