Plan panel to be reconstituted

The government is set to reconstitute the Planning Commission in a day or two, official sources disclosed here Wednesday. The body has been lying defunct following the resignation of Montek Singh Ahluwalia as the deputy chairman following the declaration of the Lok Sabha election results.

A confidant of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, he held the post for 10 years. The members of the body included B K Chaturvedi, Saumitra Chaudhuri, Syeda Hameed, Narendra Jadhav, Abhijit Sen, Mihir Shah, K Kasturirangan and Arun Maira.