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Plan panel member resigns
G. Srinivasan
New Delhi
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May 26
THE Planning Commission Member, Dr K. Venkatasubramanian, resigned from his office after completing four years of service. As per the convention, he tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Monday.
When contacted, Dr Venkatasubramanian told Business Line here, "I go with the full heart as I feel I have done my job to the fullest satisfaction. I was able to bring in real uplift of elementary education, thanks to the Sarvashiksha Abhayan programme for which the Planning Commission totally funded."
He also said, "we could boast of significant privatisation in higher education by bringing in deemed university into play as about one hundred deemed universities were providing higher education in remote rural corners of the country."
In the crucial area of provision of primary health care, he said, "We could own up more efficiency and infrastructure in the delivery of health services" which would go a long way in the provisioning of basic care to the millions of poor people across the country.
Dr Venkatasubramanian said that what gives him "immense satisfaction" was in the domain of knowledge. "I was the Convenor of a Yojana Bhawan High Level Task Force on the vital subject of how to make India a knowledge superpower.
He said the Task Force gave a pathway and roadmap to make India a knowledge superpower and the report was commended by international development agencies like the World Bank. He said the five-point agenda enunciated in the Task Force report include, among others, education for developing a learning society, global networking, vibrant government-industry-academia interaction in policy-making and implementation, leveraging extant expertise and competence in information technology (IT), telecom, bio-technology, drug design, financial services and enterprise-wise management.
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