Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Department of Government of Tamil Nadu

The primary responsibility of the Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Department originally was the preparation of the Annual and Five Year Plans for the State, monitoring and review of expenditure on State Plan Schemes, Twenty Point Programme and Centrally Sponsored Schemes. In the context of the abolition of the Un ion Planning Commission and the merger of the Plan and Non-Plan portions of the Budget, formation of NITI Aayog, and advent of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the role of the Department will evolve to longer term strategic goal setting and medium term operational sequencing of development projects and programmes in Tamil Nadu, and securing greater policy coordination in such initiatives, and bringing focus on achieving the targets and indicators under the SDGs.