Views-exchange meeting on 7th Five-Year Plan today

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UNB, Dhaka :
The General Economics Division (GED) of the Planning Commission will organise a views-exchange meeting on Wednesday as part of its preparations for formulating the upcoming 7th Five-Year Plan.
This time, the GED would sit with teachers of the Department of Economics of Dhaka University at 11:00am at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal will be present at the views-exchange meeting as the chief guest.
The 7th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) will focus on creating skilled manpower through appropriate education.
The theme of the 7th Five-Year Plan would be ‘Accelerating Growth:
Empowering Every Citizen’.
An economist panel, headed by country’s renowned economist Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud, has already been formed to recommend necessary guidelines for formulating the draft document of the Plan.
Human resources development and the education sector would truly be given highest importance in the upcoming plan, said officials at the Planning Commission.
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