Development, Governance, Employment to be major issues
*All Govt Deptts to draft their own roadmaps
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Jan 19: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has been drafting two Vision Documents on the directions of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog in all sectors with major focus on development during current decade with specific timelines and milestones. A separate document is being drafted for next 25 years i.e. till 2047.
The NITI Aayog had written to the Jammu and Kashmir administration seeking detailed roadmap of all departments for current decades followed by till 2047 for development and all other aspects including Vision, Approach, Cross-Cutting Challenges/Opportunities, Global Value Chains, Leveraging Sunrises Sectors of Growth, Climate Change (Pathways to realise the PM’s Panchamrit Commitments), Research and Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Employment Issues, Human Capital Development and Social Security, Governance and Indicative Steps.
“The UT administration has further asked all Departments to draft both the Vision Documents—first for remaining seven years of the decade and another for next 25 years. Most of the Departments are almost ready with the documents while others will be completing the exercise shortly,” official sources told the Excelsior.
They said the comprehensive documents will be submitted to the NITI Aayog shortly.
Attaining new heights of prosperity, making best facilities available in villages and cities, eliminating unnecessary interference by the Government in the lives of citizens and building world’s most modern infrastructure will be part of Sectoral Vision which will be guided by the aspiration for India@2047 envisioned by the Prime Minister, the sources said.
The Employment Issues include changing nature of employment: Gig economy, making agriculture-manufacturing services transition in employment, female labour force participation rates and ensuring seamless and effortless mobility of people as well as their movable and immovable assets across the country through standardised processes and procedures.
The issues to be mentioned on Governance in the Vision Document include size and role of Government: enabler of private sector led growth and data driven policy-making across all Government processes. Wherever applicable, district will be the fulcrum of the exercise, sources said, adding other issues for the Governance are building a system of institutional domain expertise across all verticals, incentivising and deepening reforms, optimising quality and cost in Government processes and fostering work place innovation.
“Sunrise sectors in which we have an inherent advantage or potential may be identified and interventions prioritised based on our national policy targets, productivity enhancing effects of frontier technologies and its displacement effects on employment may be considered in designing such roadmaps which increase productivity and employment while minimising the displacement effect,” the Government document said in its directions to the administration.
It has sought the vision of making Research and Development a top priority and bringing innovations to market.
Other roadmaps which the document will touch pertained to adopting proactive approach in decision making, anticipating changes in sectoral landscape and initiating steps for all-round development and assessing disparities and suggesting measures to reduce them.
“One Vision Document is being drafted taking into account the priorities up to 2030 i.e. remaining seven years of this decade while the other will be prepared based on expectation, hopes and other priorities for next 25 years i.e. till 2047 when the country will celebrate 100 years of Independence,” the sources said.
After receiving the documents, they said, the NITI Aayog will draft priorities for all States and Union Territories including Jammu and Kashmir based on the papers submitted by different departments of the Union Territory.
As per the sources, once the documents are drafted by different departments, they will be clubbed and approved by the UT Government before being submitted to the NITI Aayog.
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