India must change five-year plan model: Arun Maira
9 years, 5 months ago

India must change five-year plan model: Arun Maira

India TV News  

New Delhi: After a recast of Planning Commission, India must change its five-year approach and make it a more dynamic exercise, even as conditions must be created to promote more jobs and entrepreneurship, Arun Maira, a former member of the erstwhile plan panel has said. Maira, 72, whose book "An upstart in government: Journeys of Change and Learning" was released earlier this month, said that role of Niti Aayog set up by the Narendra Modi government must be "a coach and catalyst" and "not budget management and controller" as the plan panel had become. Maira, a plan panel member from 2009 to 2014, said Niti Aayog must assist states to do better. It is 180-degree shift almost in the orientation that is required of Niti Aayog compared to Planning Commission," Maira said.

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Does India need another tryst with the plan panel?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Does India need another tryst with the plan panel?

Hindustan Times  

In a budget speech made 75 years ago, the then finance minister John Mathai announced the setting up of a new expert body to coordinate and guide economic activities in India — the Planning Commission. Two individuals played a major role in establishing the Commission’s reputation as a knowledge powerhouse in its early years — PC Mahalanobis and Pitambar Pant. …

NITI Aayog and policymaking: Explained
8 months ago

NITI Aayog and policymaking: Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: After having introduced changes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Council of Ministers after the general elections, the National Democratic Alliance-led government on July 16 reconstituted the government think tank NITI Aayog. Prior to this, according to The Hindu Businessline, the NITI Aayog Vice President had served as a member on both the Economic Advisory Council to …

NITI Aayog Reconstituted; 15 Union Ministers Including NDA Allies Become Part
8 months ago

NITI Aayog Reconstituted; 15 Union Ministers Including NDA Allies Become Part

News 18  

The Narendra Modi-led NDA government on Tuesday reconstituted the NITI Aayog, with four full-time members and 15 union ministers, including from BJP allies, as either ex-officio members or special invitees. The special invitees in the reconstituted NITI Aayog will be Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Jagat Prakash Nadda, H D Kumaraswamy, Jitan Ram Manjhi, Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh. Other …

PM Modi to chair Niti Aayog meet today; Kejriwal, 5 other CMs to skip it
1 year, 9 months ago

PM Modi to chair Niti Aayog meet today; Kejriwal, 5 other CMs to skip it

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi At a time when 21 Opposition parties have chosen to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building on May 28, six chief ministers — all of states not ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party -- will not attend the Niti Aayog’s 8th governing council meeting on Saturday. The chief ministers who will skip the meeting are Delhi’s …

Making civil servants think like a Prime Minister
5 years, 8 months ago

Making civil servants think like a Prime Minister

The Hindu  

In early June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting of top bureaucrats in which he flagged three key priorities — ‘Make in India’, ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and, a new priority of ‘Ease of Living’. Exhorting the Secretaries to “think of themselves as the Prime Minister”, he stressed on the need for the civil servants to break down silos, …

Need to restructure Niti Ayog, give fund allocation powers: ex-RBI Deputy Guv
5 years, 8 months ago

Need to restructure Niti Ayog, give fund allocation powers: ex-RBI Deputy Guv

Live Mint  

Former RBI Deputy Governor Rakesh Mohan has stressed the need for relooking at the structure and functions of the government think tank Niti Aayog and also giving it fund allocation powers analogous to that of the Planning Commission. "The Niti Aayog must be technically strengthened and reorganised so that it can develop long-term integrated programmes for investment and management of …

Dilli Ka Babu: A new Niti Aayog?
6 years, 1 month ago

Dilli Ka Babu: A new Niti Aayog?

Deccan Chronicle  

Former finance secretary and ex-Finance Commission chairman, Vijay Kelkar, has suggested a revamp of Niti Aayog and creating a new organisation which, unlike the present avatar, can allocate capital and revenue grants to the states. Interestingly, the suggestion has come less than five years after the government replaced the Planning Commission with the Niti Aayog, which was deliberately designed to …

Bringing back the local in the national tax regime
6 years, 2 months ago

Bringing back the local in the national tax regime

Live Mint  

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NITI Aayog has lost its direction; think tank does not put forward strategic and structural changes
6 years, 2 months ago

NITI Aayog has lost its direction; think tank does not put forward strategic and structural changes

Firstpost  

“Having served as a chief minister in the past, I am very much aware of the importance of actively consulting the states. Modi had then said that unlike the Planning Commission, the NITI Aayog would not follow the ‘one size fits all’ approach. Unlike the Planning Commission, NITI Aayog proposes many methods of letting the private sector take over public …

Planning Commission was better than NITI Aayog: Himachal CM | IndiaTV News
9 years, 9 months ago

Planning Commission was better than NITI Aayog: Himachal CM | IndiaTV News

India TV News  

Shimla: Batting for the disbanded Planning Commission, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh said on Friday it was far better than the newly-constituted NITI Aayog as far as the welfare of states was concerned. I personally feel NITI Aayog has no clear directives for special category states like Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand," he said. The chief minister said besides the …

NITI Aayog website launched | IndiaTV News
9 years, 10 months ago

NITI Aayog website launched | IndiaTV News

India TV News  

NITI Aayog website launched New Delhi: The Centre on Monday launched the website of NITI Aayog almost five months after archiving the website of the erstwhile Planning Commission.The beta version of the website was launched by Vice Chairman of New Delhi: The Centre on Monday launched the website of NITI Aayog almost five months after archiving the website of the …

With just 300 staffers, Niti Aayog leaner than Planning Commission
9 years, 11 months ago

With just 300 staffers, Niti Aayog leaner than Planning Commission

Hindustan Times  

The National Institutional for Transforming India Aayog will be a lean body unlike its predecessor, the Planning Commission, which had over 1,100 employees. The Niti Aayog that replaced the plan panel on January 1, 2015, would have about 300 people including the members and the support staff, government sources said. In the new structure the government plans to have a …

PM Modi to seek experts' views at first NITI meeting on February 6
10 years, 1 month ago

PM Modi to seek experts' views at first NITI meeting on February 6

India TV News  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will, on Friday, brainstorm with experts in the maiden meeting of NITI Aayog to find ways to boost economy as government prepares to present its first full-fledged Budget later this month. Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian, Aayog's full time members Bibek Debroy and V K Saraswat, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, Planning …

The new name of planning
10 years, 2 months ago

The new name of planning

The Hindu  

The “Yojana Aayog” or “Planning Commission” has been replaced by the “National Institution for Transforming India” or “NITI” for short. First and foremost, it means a sharp break from Soviet inspired National Development Plans to “Niti”, that is “Policy” and “Institutional change for ‘transforming India’.” Paragraph three of the Cabinet resolution states: we “require institutional reforms in governance and dynamic …

Former Plan Panel secretary Sindhushree Khullar appointed NITI Aayog's CEO
10 years, 2 months ago

Former Plan Panel secretary Sindhushree Khullar appointed NITI Aayog's CEO

India TV News  

New Delhi: Former Planning Commission Secretary Sindhushree Khullar was today appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed NITI Aayog. Khullar, a retired IAS officer, has been appointed on contract basis for a period of one year from January 1, 2015, an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training said. Economist Bibek Debroy and former DRDO chief …

Arvind Panagariya expected to be new V-C of NITI Aayog
10 years, 2 months ago

Arvind Panagariya expected to be new V-C of NITI Aayog

India TV News  

New Delhi: Speculations are doing rounds that noted economist and Columbia University Professor Arvind Panagariya is expected to be the new Vice-Chairman of the revamped Planning Commission NITI Aayog. In the lead up to the 2014 general elections, Panagariya had endorsed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies and had backed the Gujarat model of development. He was considered once before also …

Niti Aayog likely to start functioning next week
10 years, 2 months ago

Niti Aayog likely to start functioning next week

India TV News  

New Delhi: Within hours of the government announcing a new body to replace Planning Commission, the Yojana Bhawan staff began hectic preparations to welcome new Vice-Chairman of Niti Aayog and other members who are likely to be appointed shortly. "Government is expected to soon appoint Vice-Chairman and full time members of the newly formed NITI Aayog and they may join …

Opposition questions Planning Commission's renaming
10 years, 2 months ago

Opposition questions Planning Commission's renaming

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Opposition Thursday questioned the government's rechristening of the Planning Commission as "NITI Aayog". The Congress sought to know whether the reform introduced by the BJP-led government was premised on any meaningful programme or if the move was simply born out of political opposition to the party that ran the Planning Commission for over 60 years. "The real …

NITI Aayog replaces Planning Commission; PM to be chairperson
10 years, 2 months ago

NITI Aayog replaces Planning Commission; PM to be chairperson

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government began the New Year replacing the age-old Planning Commission with a new institution named NITI Aayog, where the prime minister would continue as chairperson of the revamped body. Referring to his predecessor Manmohan Singh's remarks that the body had no futuristic vision in the post-reform period and must be reinvented to remain more effective …

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