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The Government of India has established Niti Ayog as a Think Tank which has no power to impose policies. By
establishing Niti Ayog the government wants to be an enabler and leaves the impetus to provide a platform for
cooperative and competitive federalism to the newly established body. India was probably the first nonCommunist
country which went for central planning. Starting with the HarrodDomar Model and later statistics of Mahalanobis
model, the planning commission set out sector specific output and investment targets. It was strong enough to have a
final say on resource allocation. For the last few decades, funds were simply tied to not only successful but also failed
schemesbecausevestedinterestsdemandedtheircontinuation.Therewasanincreasinglyfrustrationinthestatesbutthey
hadtoyieldtothearrogantfundcontrollingbody.MostunderdevelopedstatesincludingtheNorthEasthadtosufferdue
to the dogged prescription of onesizefitsall schemes by the planning commission. The Niti Ayog seeks to give up the
one size fits all prescriptions for a huge country like India with lots of vertical and horizontal imbalances. Whether it
wouldbeabletocarveoutitsuniqueplaceintodaystime,isyettobeseen.
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AimsandObjectivesofNitiAyog
CompositionofNITIAyog

AimsandObjectivesofNitiAyog
NITI Aayog is essentially an advisory body that seeks to provide
critical directional and strategic inputs across spectrum of key elements of
policytothecentreaswellasstates.

It also seeks to put an end to the slow and tardy implementation of the
policybyfosteringinterministry,interstateandcentrestatecoordination.

Strong states make a strong nation, is the core idea and the Ayog will
foster cooperative federalism by evolving a shared vision of national
developmentpriorities.

It has been envisaged to follow the bottomtop development

approach whereby, it would develop mechanisms to formulate credible
plans to the village level and aggregate these progressively at higher levels
ofgovernment.

Itwouldalsopayattentiontotheweakersectionsofthesocietythat may
nothavebenefittedfromeconomicprogress.

It would create a knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurial support

system via a community of national and international experts, practitioners
andpartners.

It would serve as a platform for resolution of intersectoral and inter

departmental issues in order to accelerate the implementation of the
developmentagenda.

Itwillalsomonitorandevaluatetheimplementationofprogrammes, and
focusontechnologyupgradationandcapacitybuilding.

CompositionofNITIAyog
ChairpersonPrimeMinister

Governing Council Its members are Chief Ministers and

AdministratorsoftheUnionTerritories

RegionalCouncilsThesewouldbecreatedasperneedanditsmembers
wouldbechiefministersandadministratorsofUTsofrespectiveregions.

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ViceChairperson The Vicechairperson of the Niti Ayog will be

appointed by Prime Minister. The first ViceChairperson of Niti Ayog is
ArvindPanagariya.
Further, the Niti Ayog has full time members (number unspecified), part time members (maximum 2 , these would be
scholars from universities and research institutions), Exofficio members (maximum 4, these are ministers from Union
Council of Ministers), Special Invitees (appointed by PM for fixed tenure. Finally, there is a Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of the Niti Ayog, who is appointed by Prime Minister and has a rank similar to Secretary to the Government of
India. Current CEO was named on January 10 (Sindhushree Khullar ). The secretariat will be established if deemed
necessary.

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