SME Times News Bureau | 16 May, 2019
The third meeting of
the Advisory Council of the Fifteenth Finance Commission was held in New Delhi on
Friday.
It was chaired by N.K.
Singh, Chairman, XVFC and attended by Members of the Advisory Council and
Members of the Commission and senior officials of the Commission.
In the meeting the
Council Members were updated by the Commission on the progress made in terms of
State Visits by the Commission, consultations with the RBI, with Bankers and
financial institutions, with stakeholders and domain experts.
Discussions were also
held on the structure of the Commission’s Report and the ToR-wise mapping of
the Report.
Issues of Public
Sector Borrowing Requirement(PSBR), issues concerning GST and its
implementation, transparency in publishing accounting data related to debt and
deficit, possible trajectories of debt consolidation of the General Government,
impact of UDAY on state liability, dynamic interaction between fiscal deficit,
inflation, interest rates and private investments were also discussed in
detail.
Views of the Members
were sought on possible scenario for macro variables like GDP projections and
economic outlook during the award period of the Commission i.e.2020-21 to
2024-25. The meeting also analysed a presentation made by Dr. Sajjid Z. Chinoy
on Public Sector Borrowing Requirement, in today’s meeting.
N. K. Singh announced
that there would be three more meetings of the Council, one after the formation
of the new government, one after the formal submission of the Memorandum of the
Government to the Finance Commission and the last before the final report of
the Commission is submitted to the Government.