NITI Aayog was formed on January 1st 2015 and its 1st
meeting was held on February 8th 2015.
NITI Aayog had replaced 64 years old planning
Commission.
Reference has been made
in the previous years of prelims 2011
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| NITI Aayog |
NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming
India Aayog) is a Government of India policy think-tank established by
Prime Minster Narendra Modi to replace the old planning commission.
The main aim of
this institution is to increase the involvement and participation
of state governments in economic policy making process of the
country by bottom to up approach involving the state executives and many
agencies in decision making process
The previous Institution
planning commission has the less scope to involve the state functionaries as
the structure of planning commission is from top to bottom approach,
while the new body NITI Aayog is from Bottom to Up approach which
formulates and regulates policies in economic and social issues with many
functionaries and experts involvement in it
Changes and Developments
introduced
PM Narendra Modi appointed
3 sub-groups of chief ministers to make recommendations in 3 important areas
- Centrally sponsored schemes
- Skill development
- Swach Bharat
The Government has
established a mechanism to be known as SETU (Self-Employment and Talent
Utilization) under NITI Aayog.
SETU will be a
Techno-Financial, Incubation and Facilitation Program to support all aspects of
start-up businesses and self-employment activities particularly in
technology-driven areas.
STRUCTURE AND GOVERNING COUNCILS OF NITI Aayog
NITI Aayog consits of
the following structure and members.
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Full-time
organizational framework
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NITI
Aayog
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Chairperson
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Narendra
Modi (Prime Minister of India)
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Vice Chairperson
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1.Arvind
Panagariya
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Full-Time Members
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1.Bibek
Debroy.
2.V.K.
Saraswat.
3.Prof.
Ramesh Chand.
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Ex-officio Members
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1.Rajnath
Singh.(Minister of Home Affairs)
2. Arun
Jaitley. (Minister of Finance, Minister of Corporate Affairs and
Minister of Information and Broadcasting)
3.Suresh
Prabhu.(Minister of Railways)
4.Radha
Mohan Singh(Minister of Agriculture)
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Special Invitees
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1.Nitin
Gadkari(Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Minister of Shipping)
2.Thawar
Chand Gehlot. (Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment)
3.Smt.
Smriti Zubin Irani. (Minister of Human Resource Development)
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Chief Executive Officer
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Amitabh Kant
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Part-time Members
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Maximum
of 2 from leading universities, research organizations and other institutions
in an ex-officio capacity.
Part-time
members will be on a rotational basis
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Others members of NITI
Framework consists of the following
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Governing Council –CM’s
of all the states and UT’s with legislatures and lieutenant governors of UT’s.
2.
Regional Councils
(specific Tenure) – Will be set up to address any specific issues and the
issues relating to inter-states.Regional councils will be chaired by the
Chairperson of the NITI Aayog or his nominee
3.
Experts, Subject
specialists, Practitioners with relevant domain knowledge as special invitees
upon the nomination of prime minister
References and websites
of NITI Aayog
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