NITI Aayog

NITI Aayog
The NITI Aayog (Hindi for Policy

Commission), also National Institution for
Transforming India, is a policy think tank
of the Government of India, established
with the aim to achieve Sustainable
Development Goals and to enhance
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 Elimination of
Poverty, and Transforming India Lecture
Series.[1]
Agency overview
Formed 1 January 2015
Preceding Planning Commission
Jurisdiction Government of India
Headquarters New Delhi
Agency executives Narendra Modi,

Chairman
Rajiv Kumar, Vice
Chairman
Bibek Debroy, Member
V. K. Saraswat, Member
Ramesh Chand,
Member
Vinod Paul, Member
Amitabh Kant, CEO
Dinesh Arora, Director
Parent agency Government Of India
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 Prime Minister is the Ex-officio
chairman. The permanent members of the
governing council are 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.
History
The Union Government of India announced
the formation of NITI Aayog on 1 January
2015, and the first meeting was held on 8
February 2015. On 29 May 2014, the
Independent 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). 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."[2]
Functions
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
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[3]
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.[4]
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.[5]
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, five
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.[6]
With the Prime Minister as the

Chairperson, the committee consists of
Vice Chairperson: Rajiv Kumar[7]

Ex-Officio Members: Rajnath Singh,
Arun Jaitley, Suresh Prabhu and Radha
Mohan Singh
Special Invitees: Nitin Gadkari, Prakash
Javadekar and Thawar Chand Gehlot
Full-time Members: Bibek Debroy
(Economist),[8] V. K. Saraswat (former
DRDO Chief), Ramesh Chand
(Agriculture Expert)[9] and Dr. Vinod Paul
(Public Health expert)[10]
Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Amitabh
Kant[11]
Governing Council: All Chief Ministers of
States (and Delhi and Puducherry) and
Lieutenant Governors of remaining
Union Territories.
Core Committee: Dr.Somdutta Singh[12]
References
1. "NITI Ayog update June 2017."},
{http://pib.nic.in/ NIC news , June 2017.
2. "We will use every provision in the
Constitution to push reforms" .
www.openthemagazine.com.
3. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi
inaugurates 'NITI Lectures: Transforming
India' " .
4. "Niti Lectures" .
5. Jatinder, Kaur. "NITI Aayog Releases
State Statistics Handbook" (Online). ABC
Live. Retrieved 1 September 2017.
6. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the
original (PDF) on 16 July 2015. Retrieved
16 July 2015.
7. "Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind
Panagariya in RBI Governor race" , Deccan
Chronicle, 20 June 2016
8. "Scrap railway budget: Niti Aayog panel" ,
The Times of India, 22 June 2016
9. "Agriculture expert Ramesh Chand
appointed as Niti Aayog member | Business
Standard News" . Business-standard.com.
2016-06-18.
10. "From Planning Commission To Niti
Aayog: Life comes a full circle for Dr Vinod
Paul" . The Indian Express. 2017-08-06.
Retrieved 2017-08-28.
11. "Niti Aayog extends deadline for
research labs by a month" , The Economic
Times, 15 June 2016
12. "Somdutta Singh" . Wikipedia. 2018-03-
13.
NITI Aayog: indiagossip today
External links
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The NITI Aayog (Hindi for Policy

Formed 1 January 2015

Preceding Planning Commission

Jurisdiction Government of India

Headquarters New Delhi

Agency executives Narendra Modi,

It was established in 2015, by the NDA

On 31 August 2017, NITI Aayog developed

The Prime Minister as the Chairperson.

With the Prime Minister as the

Vice Chairperson: Rajiv Kumar[7]

Last edited 15 days ago by an anon…

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