After the abolition of the Planning Commission, the Government of India has set up, the NITI Aayog which is a policy making body. On similar lines, the State Government in its CMM meeting dated 15/02/2018 has decided to restructure the State's Planning Department.
Restructured department will provide critical directional and strategic inputs into the development process of the state focusing on deliverables and outcomes. Its primary job would be to undertake long term policies and design framework and take necessary initiatives for attaining faster development and finally to monitor and evaluate the implementation of these policies and suggest mid-course corrections. This would also help immensely in future policy formulation. This would be a break from the past, when this department was formulating the State's Annual Plan as well as Five Year Plan and was responsible for the allocation of funds for these Plans.