New Delhi, Apr 6 (KNN) The 15th Finance Commission held a high level roundtable on ‘Fiscal Relations across levels of government’.

It was moderated by Chairman of the Commission, N. K. Singh.

Addressing the gathering the Chairman set the tone of the discussions by briefly elaborating on the four technical sessions of the meeting.

Earlier, the Commission had held separate workshops with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in April, 2018 and the World Bank in July, 2018 to discuss the initial thoughts and country experiences on the issues related to fiscal federalism and inter-governmental transfers.

The roundtable is being organized in partnership with the World Bank, OECD and Asian Development Bank (ADB).

This is the culmination of significant works that all the three organizations have undertaken for the Finance Commission (FC).

The roundtable is a concluding session of the work being done by the World Bank, OECD and ADB for the Commission.

The discussions were about the findings coming out of the research work and analysis done by their teams. (KNN/JM)