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The NITI Aayog (lit. ' Policy Commission '; abbreviation for National Institution for Transforming India) serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of the Republic of India, and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development, and fostering cooperative federalism and moving away from bargaining federalism through the involvement of State Governments of India in ...
The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) under the NITI Aayog is responsible for evaluations. [15] Evaluation problems exist. [15] Ministries such as the transport ministry can show immediate physical outcomes of its schemes whereas in health related schemes, in certain cases, there is no output to show for. [15]
The functions of the Council are to prescribe guidelines for the formulation of the National Plan, including the assessment of resources for the Plan; to consider the National Plan as formulated by the NITI Aayog; to make an assessment of the resources that are required for implementing the Plan and to suggest measures for augmenting them.
National Statistical Office (NSO) is mandated with the following responsibilities: acts as the nodal agency for planned development of the statistical system in the country, lays down and maintains norms and standards in the field of statistics, involving concepts and definitions, methodology of data collection, processing of data and dissemination of results;
The first meeting of NITI Aayog was chaired by Narendra Modi on 8 February 2015. NITI Aayog's mandate is to support the center and the states in transforming India by promoting cooperative federalism by fostering the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach. The Governing Council ...
The Planning Commission was an institution in the Government of India which formulated India's Five-Year Plans, among other functions. In his first Independence Day speech in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his intention to dissolve the Planning Commission. It has since been replaced by a new institution named NITI Aayog.
Shri B. V. R. Subrahmanyam, ex. CEO of NITI Aayog is the ex-officio Member and Dr. Saurabh Garg is Secretary to the Commission. [1] The Chairperson of the Commission enjoys the status of a Minister of State and the Members of the Commission have the status equivalent to the Secretary to the Government of India.
NITI Aayog (succeeding the Planning Commission) [1] [2] [3] The committee consists of thirty-one members, twenty-one elected by Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Parliament, and not more than ten members of Rajya Sabha , the upper house of the Parliament.