Rashtrapati Bhavan becomes new venue for chief ministerial conclaves

PM Modi wants such meetings with CMs to take place around the proverbial 'round table'

The Rashtrapati Bhavan auditorium is increasingly replacing Vigyan Bhavan as the address for meetings attended by chief ministers of states.

On Sunday, the auditorium will be the venue for the Governing Council meeting of the NITI Aayog. In a first, the auditorium was the venue for the Inter-State Council meeting in July last year.

The NITI Aayog Governing Council, which comprises all chief ministers and some senior cabinet ministers, is expected to deliberate on the vision of ‘new India’ for the next three years and also on a wider 15-year timeframe.

The chief ministers of all 29 states and two