Vision paper on Perspective Plan at final stage
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
FHM Humayan Kabir
The planning commission has finalised the Perspective Plan aiming to graduate the national economy to middle-income status by achieving US$2000 per capita income and reducing poverty to 14 per cent by 2021, officials said Tuesday.
Planning Minister AK Khandoker will sit with the steering committee today (Wednesday) to give the country's first-ever long-term vision paper a final shape.
The vision paper would be submitted before the cabinet for approval, Prof Shamsul Alam, member of the General Economics Division (GED) told the FE.
"We are hopeful, the perspective plan 2021 may get nod of the cabinet next week," he said.
The GED, which prepared the draft vision paper said, it would guide the nation to cut extreme poverty to 14 per cent from existing 37 per cent and achieve a double-digit economic growth by 2021, final year of its implementation period.
The draft vision paper has also targeted cutting unemployment rate to 15 per cent and raising literary rate to 100 per cent of the population by FY 2021, GED officials said.
"We'll finalise the vision paper by this month. It will guide the country to where the nation will be in 2021," said Prof Alam.
"After getting approval of the Cabinet, we will place the strategic plan before the National Economic Council (NEC) for starting implementation from the next financial year 2011," he said.
The planning commission has finalised the Perspective Plan aiming to graduate the national economy to middle-income status by achieving US$2000 per capita income and reducing poverty to 14 per cent by 2021, officials said Tuesday.
Planning Minister AK Khandoker will sit with the steering committee today (Wednesday) to give the country's first-ever long-term vision paper a final shape.
The vision paper would be submitted before the cabinet for approval, Prof Shamsul Alam, member of the General Economics Division (GED) told the FE.
"We are hopeful, the perspective plan 2021 may get nod of the cabinet next week," he said.
The GED, which prepared the draft vision paper said, it would guide the nation to cut extreme poverty to 14 per cent from existing 37 per cent and achieve a double-digit economic growth by 2021, final year of its implementation period.
The draft vision paper has also targeted cutting unemployment rate to 15 per cent and raising literary rate to 100 per cent of the population by FY 2021, GED officials said.
"We'll finalise the vision paper by this month. It will guide the country to where the nation will be in 2021," said Prof Alam.
"After getting approval of the Cabinet, we will place the strategic plan before the National Economic Council (NEC) for starting implementation from the next financial year 2011," he said.