NITI AAYOG (NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR TRANSFORMING INDIA): Origin, Composition, Functions

• • It is an Extra Constitutional Body formed via a resolution of the Union Cabinet.
  • Premier policy ‘Think Tank’ of Government of India to foster Cooperative Federalism.
• Bottom-Up approach.

• NITI is the nodal agency for SDG.

• Designs policy and programme framework.
• Foster cooperative federalism.
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Think-tank, and Knowledge and Innovation Hub.

• Pro-people: It fulfills the aspirations of society as well as individuals.
• Pro-activity: In anticipation of and response to citizen needs.
• Participation: Involvement of citizenry.
• Empowering: Empowering, especially women in all aspects.
• Inclusion of All: Inclusion of all people irrespective of caste, creed, and gender.
• Equality: Providing equal opportunity to all, especially for youth.
• Transparency: Making the government visible and responsive.

• • Chairperson: Prime Minister of India.
  • Governing Council comprising the CMs of all the States, CM of Union Territories with Legislatures and Lt. Governors of UTs.
  • Regional Councils: formed to address specific issues and contingencies impacting more than one state or a region.
    • Chaired by the Chairperson of the NITI Aayog or his nominee.
    • Formed for a specified tenure.
    • Convened by the PM and will comprise CM of States and Lt. Governors of UTs in the region.
  • Special Invitees: Experts, specialists and practitioners with relevant domain knowledge as special invitees nominated by the PM.
• Full-time Organizational Framework:

• • Vice·Chairperson: He/ she is appointed by the Prime Minister. He/she enjoys the rank of a Cabinet Minister.
  • Full-time Members: They enjoy the rank of a Minister of State.
  • Part-time Members: Maximum of 2, from leading universities, research organizations and other relevant institutions in an ex-officio capacity. Part-time members would be on a rotation.
  • Ex-Officio Members: Maximum of 4 members of the Union Council of Ministers to be nominated by the Prime Minister.
  • Chief Executive Officer: He/ she is appointed by the Prime Minister for a fixed tenure, in the rank of Secretary to the Government o f India.
  • Secretariat: As deemed necessary.

• Team India Hub: acts as an interface between States and Centre.
• Knowledge and Innovation Hub: builds the think-tank acumen of NITI Aayog.

• 15-year road map.
• 7-year vision, strategy and action plan.
• India@75.
• Digital India and Atal Innovation Mission etc.

• National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development.
• Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office.

• SDG India Index.
• Composite Water Management Index.
• Atal Innovation Mission.
• SATH (Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital) programme.
• Aspirational District Programme.
• Health Index 2019 – (Healthy states, progressive India) etc.
• Transforming Industrial Training Institutes
• Transition to Accrual Accounting
• Model Conclusive Land Titling Act & Rules
• Report on Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) Policy Framework and its Deployment Mechanism in India
• Report of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on just Transition from Coal
• Report Committee on Low Carbon Technologies
• Responsible AI-AIForAll
• Mission Document for LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment)
• White Paper on ‘Urban Wastewater Scenario in India’
• Transforming Trucking in India: Pathways to Zero-Emission Truck Deployment.

• Transforming Trucking in India: Pathways to Zero-Emission Truck Deployment. 
• Drawing inspiration and direction from the Hon’ble PM’s clarion call for establishing a New India by 2022, NITI Aayog embarked on a journey of formulating the Strategy document in 2017.
• Released on 19 December 2018 
• Detailed exposition of forty-one crucial areas that recognizes the progress already made, identifies binding constraints, and suggests the way forward for achieving clearly stated objectives for 2022-23. 
• Aayog followed an extremely participative approach in preparing the strategy. 
• The focus of the Strategy document is to further improve the policy environment in which private investors and other stakeholders can contribute their fullest towards achieving the goals set out for New India 2022 and propel India towards a USD 5 trillion economy by 2030.
• The forty-one chapters in the document have been disaggregated under four sections: Drivers, Infrastructure, Inclusion and Governance. 

Guiding Principles of Niti Aayog