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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 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.
Economic growth projected at 8.6% for FY2010-11 and 9% for FY2011-12; Inflation estimated to be at 7% by March-end; Agriculture sector projected to grow 5.4% in 2010-11; Industry sector to expand at 8.1% and services sector at 9.6%; Fiscal deficit to come down to 5.2% in FY11; Exports estimated to increase to $230 billion in FY2010-11
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 National Statistical Commission (NSC) of India is an autonomous body which formed on 12 July 2006 under the recommendation of Rangarajan commission. The NSC is currently headed by Prof. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar who was appointed as Chairperson of the Commission on 30 Nov 2022 for a period of three years.
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 It has since been replaced by a new institution named NITI Aayog.
Arvind Panagariya (born 30 September 1952) is an Indian economist who is holding the position of Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University and the Director of Deepak and Neera Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York City.
[9] He was the Secretary General at the FICCI from 2010 to 2012. [3] He became a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi from 2013 until January 2017. [3] In 2017, he was appointed as the vice chairman of NITI Aayog-Government of India's apex think tank, with the rank of a Cabinet Minister. He was also the chairman of the Atal ...