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    NITI Aayog

    The NITI Aayog (Hindi for Policy


    Commission) (abbreviation for National
    Institution for Transforming India) is a
    policy think tank of the Government of
    India, established with the aim to achieve
    sustainable development goals with
    cooperative federalism by fostering the
    involvement of State Governments of India
    in the economic policy-making process
    using a bottom-up approach. Its initiatives
    include "15-year road map", "7-year vision,
    strategy, and action plan", AMRUT, Digital
    India, Atal Innovation Mission, Medical
    Education Reform, agriculture reforms
    (Model Land Leasing Law, Reforms of the
    Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee
    Act, Agricultural Marketing and Farmer
    Friendly Reforms Index for ranking states),
    Indices Measuring States’ Performance in
    Health, Education and Water Management,
    Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on
    Rationalization of Centrally Sponsored
    Schemes, Sub-Group of Chief Ministers on
    Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Sub-Group of
    Chief Ministers on Skill Development, Task
    Forces on Agriculture and up of Poverty,
    and Transforming India Lecture Series.[2]
    NITI Aayog

    Agency overview

    Formed 1 January 2015

    Preceding Planning Commission

    Headquarters New Delhi

    Annual budget ₹339.65 crores ($48+


    million) (2020-21)[1]
    including Ministry of
    planning
    Agency executives Narendra Modi,
    (Chairperson)
    Rajiv Kumar, (Vice
    Chairperson)

    Amitabh Kant, (CEO)


    Parent agency Ministry of planning

    Website www.niti.gov.in

    It was established in 2015, by the NDA


    government, to replace the Planning
    Commission which followed a top-down
    model. The NITI Aayog council comprises
    all the state Chief Ministers, along with the
    Chief Ministers of Delhi and Puducherry,
    the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and
    Nicobar, and a vice-chairman nominated
    by the Prime Minister. In addition,
    temporary members are selected from
    leading universities and research
    institutions. These members include a
    chief executive officer, four ex-official
    members, and two part-time members. It
    doubled the current growth - developing
    self-sufficient cluster target growth of 10%

    History
    29 May 2014Independent Evaluation Office
    submitted an assessment report to Prime
    Minister Narendra Modi with the
    recommendation to replace the Planning
    Commission with a "control commission."
    On 13 August 2014, the Union Cabinet
    scrapped the Planning Commission, to be
    replaced with a diluted version of the
    National Advisory Council (NAC) of India.
    On 1 January 2015, a Cabinet resolution
    was passed to replace the Planning
    Commission with the newly formed NITI
    Aayog (National Institution for
    Transforming India). Union Government of
    India announced the formation of NITI
    Aayog on 1 January 2015. The first
    meeting of NITI Aayog was chaired by
    Narendra Modi on 8 February 2015.

    Finance Minister Arun Jaitley made the


    following observation on the necessity of
    creating NITI Aayog, "The 65-year-old
    Planning Commission had become a
    redundant organisation. It was relevant in
    a command economy structure, but not
    any longer. India is a diversified country
    and its states are in various phases of
    economic development along with their
    own strengths and weaknesses. In this
    context, a ‘one size fits all’ approach to
    economic planning is obsolete. It cannot
    make India competitive in today's global
    economy."[3] It is a reformation scheme of
    the day-to-day lifestyles of the people of
    India.

    Objectives
    1. To evolve a shared vision of national
    development priorities, sectors, and
    strategies with the active involvement
    of States in the light of national
    objectives.
    2. To foster cooperative federalism
    through structured support initiatives
    and mechanisms with the States on a
    continuous basis, recognizing that
    strong States make a strong nation.
    3. To develop mechanisms to formulate
    credible plans at the village level and
    aggregate these progressively at
    higher levels of government.
    4. To ensure, on areas that are
    specifically referred to it, that the
    interests of national security are
    incorporated in economic strategy
    and policy.
    5. To pay special attention to the
    sections of our society that may be at
    risk of not benefiting adequately from
    economic progress.
    6. To design strategic and long term
    policy and programme frameworks
    and initiatives, and monitor their
    progress and their efficacy. The
    lessons learnt through monitoring
    and feedback will be used for making
    innovative improvements, including
    necessary mid-course corrections.
    7. To provide advice and encourage
    partnerships between key
    stakeholders and national and
    international like-minded Think tanks,
    as well as educational and policy
    research institutions.
    8. To create a knowledge, innovation
    and entrepreneurial support system
    through a collaborative community of
    national and international experts,
    practitioners and other partners.
    9. To offer a platform for resolution of
    inter-sectoral and inter departmental
    issues in order to accelerate the
    implementation of the development
    agenda.
    10. To maintain a state-of-the-art
    Resource Centre, be a repository of
    research on good governance and
    best practices in sustainable and
    equitable development as well as
    help their dissemination to stake-
    holders.
    11. To actively monitor and evaluate the
    implementation of programmes and
    initiatives, including the identification
    of the needed resources so as to
    strengthen the probability of success
    and scope of delivery.
    12. To focus on technology upgradation
    and capacity building for
    implementation of programmes and
    initiatives.
    13. To undertake other activities as may
    be necessary in order to further the
    execution of the national
    development agenda, and the
    objectives mentioned in above.

    NITI Lectures
    NITI Aayog has started a new initiative on
    the advice of Prime Minister Narendra
    Modi called NITI Lectures: Transforming
    India. The aim of this initiative is to invite
    globally reputed policy makers, experts,
    administrators to India to share their
    knowledge, expertise, experience in policy
    making and good governance with Indian
    counterparts. This initiative will be a series
    of lectures started with first lecture[4]
    delivered by Deputy Prime Minister of
    Singapore Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
    He delivered lecture on subject called
    "India and the Global Economy" at Vigyan
    Bhavan, New Delhi. The Prime Minister
    spoke about the idea behind this lecture
    series and stated that his vision for India is
    rapid transformation, not gradual
    evolution.[5]

    On 31 August 2017, NITI Aayog developed


    a State Statistics Handbook that
    consolidates key statistics across sectors
    for every Indian State/UT. While the State
    data on crucial indicators is currently
    fragmented across different sources, this
    handbook provides a one-stop database of
    important State statistics.[6]

    Initiatives
    NITI Aayog has taken initiative on
    Blockchain usages in E-governance and
    has conceptualized the tech stack as
    'IndiaChain'. IndiaChain is the name given
    to Niti Aayog's ambitious project to
    develop a nation-wide blockchain network.

    “ Artificial intelligence, machine


    learning, Internet of Things,
    blockchain and big data hold
    potential to take India to new
    heights ”
    — Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the 2016
    World Economic Forum.[7]
    The vision is to link IndiaChain with
    IndiaStack, the digital infrastructure that
    forms the backbone of the Aadhar
    project.[8] The NITI Aayog initiative on the
    blockchain system will enforce contracts
    quicker, prevent fraudulent transactions,
    and help farmers through the efficient
    disbursement of subsidies. This project is
    the first step to a larger system of record
    keeping and public good disbursement.[9]

    Members
    The NITI Aayog comprises the following:
    The Prime Minister as the Chairperson.
    A Governing Council composed of Chief
    Ministers of all the States and Union
    territories with Legislatures and
    lieutenant governors of Union
    Territories(except Delhi and
    Pondicherry)
    Regional Councils composed of Chief
    Ministers of States and Lt. Governors of
    Union Territories in the region to
    address specific issues and
    contingencies impacting more than one
    state or a region.
    Full-time organizational framework
    composed of a Vice-Chairperson, four
    full-time members, two part-time
    members (from leading universities,
    research organizations and other
    relevant institutions in an ex-officio
    capacity), four ex-officio members of the
    Union Council of Ministers, a Chief
    Executive Officer (with the rank of
    Secretary to the Government of India)
    who looks after administration, and a
    secretariat.
    Experts and specialists in various
    fields.[10]
    With the Prime Minister as the
    Chairperson, presently NITI Aayog
    consists[11] of:

    Vice Chairperson: Rajiv Kumar[12]


    Ex-Officio Members: Amit Shah, Rajnath
    Singh, Nirmala Sitaraman and Narendra
    Singh Tomar [13]
    Special Invitees: Nitin Gadkari, Piyush
    Goyal, Thawar Chand Gehlot and Rao
    Inderjit Singh [14]
    Full-time Members: V. K. Saraswat
    (former DRDO Chief), Ramesh Chand
    (Agriculture Expert)[15] and Dr. Vinod
    Paul (Public Health expert)[16]
    Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Amitabh
    Kant[17]
    Governing Council: All Chief Ministers of
    States (and Delhi and Puducherry),
    Lieutenant Governor of Andaman &
    Nicobar Islands, and Special Invites

    References
    1. "NITI Aayog Budget Allocation
    Increased by More than 20%" . Press
    Information Bureau. 23 February 2018.
    Retrieved 16 February 2020.
    2. "NITI Ayog update June 2017." , NIC
    news , June 2017.
    3. "We will use every provision in the
    Constitution to push reforms" .
    www.openthemagazine.com.
    4. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi
    inaugurates 'NITI Lectures:
    Transforming India' " .
    5. "Niti Lectures" .
    6. Jatinder, Kaur. "NITI Aayog Releases
    State Statistics Handbook" (Online).
    ABC Live. Retrieved 1 September
    2017.
    7. "PM Modi Says AI, Blockchain Will
    Change the Nature of Jobs" .
    8. "IndiaChain: India's ambitious
    blockchain project - The Indian
    Economist | DailyHunt" . DailyHunt.
    Retrieved 31 October 2018.
    9. "What is IndiaChain: a blockchain
    system that could soon be the heart of
    governance in India?" . Business
    Insider. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
    10. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from
    the original (PDF) on 16 July 2015.
    Retrieved 16 July 2015.
    11. "Gazette of India: Re-constitution of
    NITI Aayog dated June 7, 2018" (PDF).
    12. "Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind
    Panagariya in RBI Governor race" ,
    Deccan Chronicle, 20 June 2016
    13. "New Ministers join NITI Aayog" . The
    Hindu. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
    14. "New Ministers join NITI Aayog" . The
    Hindu. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
    15. "Agriculture expert Ramesh Chand
    appointed as Niti Aayog member |
    Business Standard News" . Business-
    standard.com. 18 June 2016.
    16. "From Planning Commission To Niti
    Aayog: Life comes a full circle for Dr
    Vinod Paul" . The Indian Express. 6
    August 2017. Retrieved 28 August
    2017.
    17. "Niti Aayog extends deadline for
    research labs by a month" , The
    Economic Times, 15 June 2016
    NITI Aayog: indiagossip today

    External links
    Media related to NITI Aayog at Wikimedia
    Commons
    Official website

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    http://planningcommission.gov.in/

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