NITI Aayog
Topics Discussed: -
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Introduction
·
Administrative Structure
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Difference between NITI Aayog and Planning Commission
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NITI Aayog Hubs
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Objectives
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Introduction
The NITI Aayog was formed on January
1, 2015.
In Sanskrit, the word “NITI” means morality, behaviour, guidance, etc. But, in
the present context, it means policy and the NITI stands for “National
Institution for Transforming India”. It is the country’s premier policy-making
institution which is expected to bolster the economic growth of the country. It
aims to construct a strong state that will help to create a dynamic and strong
nation. This helps India to emerge as a major economy in the world. The NITI
Aayog’s creation has two hubs called “Team India Hub” and “Knowledge and Innovation Hub”.
1.
The
Team India: It leads the participation of Indian states with the central
government.
2.
The
Knowledge and Innovation Hub: it builds institution’s think tank capabilities.
NITI Aayog is additionally
creating itself as a State of the Art Resource Centre, with the essential resources, knowledge, and skills that
will empower it to act with speed, advance research and innovation, bestow
crucial policy vision to the government and manage unforeseen issues. The
reason for setting up the NITI Aayog is that people had expectations for growth
and development in the administration through their participation. This
required institutional changes in administration and active strategy shifts
that could seed and foster substantial scale change.
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Administrative
Structure
Ø Chairperson: Prime Minister
Ø Vice-Chairperson: To be appointed by Prime-Minister
Ø Governing
Council: Chief
Ministers of all states and Lt. Governors of Union Territories.
Ø Regional
Council: To
address specific regional issues, Comprising Chief Ministers and Lt. Governors
Chaired by Prime Minister or his nominee.
Ø Adhoc
Membership: 2 members
in ex-officio capacity from leading Research institutions on rotational basis.
Ø Ex-Officio
membership: Maximum
four from Union council of ministers to be nominated by Prime minister.
Ø Chief
Executive Officer: Appointed
by Prime-minister for a fixed tenure, in rank of Secretary to Government of
India.
Ø Special
Invitees: Experts,
Specialists with domain knowledge nominated by Prime-minister.
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Difference
between NITI Aayog and Planning Commission
|
NITI Aayog |
Planning
Commission |
|
It
serves as an advisory Think Tank. |
It
served as extra-constitutional body. |
|
It
draws membership from a wider expertise. |
It
had limited expertise. |
|
It
serves in spirit of Cooperative Federalism as states are equal partners. |
States
participated as spectators in annual plan meetings. |
|
Secretaries
to be known as CEO appointed by Prime- Minister. |
Secretaries
were appointed through usual process. |
|
It
focuses upon ‘Bottom-Up’ approach of Planning. |
It
followed a ‘Top-Down’ approach. |
|
It
does not possess mandate to impose policies. |
Imposed
policies on states and tied allocation of funds with projects it approved. |
|
It
does not have powers to allocate funds, which are vested in Finance Minister. |
It
had powers to allocate funds to ministries and state governments. |
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NITI
Aayog Hubs
ü Team India Hub acts as interface between States and Centre.
ü Knowledge and Innovation Hub builds the think-tank acumen of
NITI Aayog.
ü The Aayog planned to come out with three documents — 3-year action
agenda, 7-year medium-term strategy paper and 15-year vision document.
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Objectives
1.
The
active participation of States in the light of national objectives and to
provide a framework ‘national agenda’.
2.
To
promote cooperative federalism through well-ordered support initiatives and
mechanisms with the States on an uninterrupted basis.
3.
To
construct methods to formulate a reliable strategy at the village level and
aggregate these gradually at higher levels of government.
4.
Economic
policy that incorporates national security interests.
5.
To
pay special consideration to the sections of the society that may be at risk of
not profiting satisfactorily from economic progress.
6.
To
propose strategic and long-term policy and programme frameworks and
initiatives, and review their progress and their effectiveness.
7.
To
grant advice and encourage partnerships between important stakeholders and
national- international Think Tanks, as well as educational and policy research
institutions.
8.
To
generate a knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurial support system through a
shared community of national and international experts, etc.
9.
To
provide a platform for resolution of inter-sectoral and inter-departmental
issues in order to speed up the accomplishment of the progress agenda.
10.
To
preserve 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 distribution to participants.
11.
To
effectively screen and assess the implementation of programmes and initiatives,
including the identification of the needed resources to strengthen the
likelihood of success.
12.
To
pay attention to technology improvement and capacity building for the discharge
of programs and initiatives.
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