NITI Aayog: A Think Tank
There were wide-ranging discussions on the role and remit of the new institution to replace the Planning Commission ever since Shri Narendra Modi, the prime minister in his 2014 Independence Day address declared that the Planning Commission would be replaced by a new institution. In line with the government of India’s approach of less government and a move away from centralized planning, the NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog with a new structure and focus on policy formally replaced the 64-year-old Planning Commission, in January 2015, the brainchild of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru that was seen as a vestige of the socialist era.
Nevertheless, while the working of the earlier plan body showed ...
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