According to official sources, commission deputy chairman KC Pant has written to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee about the restructuring of the plan panel. In the letter, Pant has suggested the dialogue with representatives of industry, agriculture and services and exports sectors should be institutionalised.

Pant has urged the Prime Minister that the commission should provide a forum for government- industry interface. This, according to Pant, is required to develop a macro-economic framework in the medium- and long-term contexts. Such interaction would properly tap entrepreneurial energies.