Niti Aayog

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The NHAI is key to the Modi sarkar’s calculations — rapid construction of highways could be an achievement that the government can visibly demonstrate to the people. Representational Image. (PT)

Dilip Cherian | Niti Aayog performance under review, rejig on cards

The last time Aayog was reconstituted was when current vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar was appointed after the resignation of Arvind Panagariya

25 Nov 2021 2:55 AM

The Niti Aayog booklet explains that the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) is to be financed through the National Monetisation Pipeline. (PTI Photo)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Govt can’t leave it to pvt sector to spend on infra

The private sector in India is not too keen to get into infrastructure projects

01 Sep 2021 1:50 AM

Up to Rs 5,000 crore of financial assistance is already budgeted as 50-year interest-free loan for the states for the current year, she said. — PTI

Monetisation plan unveiled

The finance minister further said the Centre will also incentivise states to monetise their public assets

24 Aug 2021 9:15 AM

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (PTI)

Finance Minister to unveil monetisation pipeline today

The plan aims to monetise brownfield infrastructure assets worth Rs 6 lakh crore across sectors

23 Aug 2021 3:02 AM

Dilip Cherian | Fresh push for lateral entry of babus likely

PM Modi has introduced the mechanism of recruiting fresh talent in the bureaucracy from the private sector during his first tenure

17 Mar 2021 7:42 AM

Aakar Patel | Modi’s eighth Budget looms, there’s still no ‘grand vision’

Unemployment has naturally followed the opposite trajectory, going from about 4% before Modi became PM to 6% and then to 9%

31 Jan 2021 12:37 AM

Moving past the heated rhetoric in India about how to deal with China, the astute Mr Kant knows the importance of China’s investments to India’s ambition of becoming a $10 trillion economy. PTI Photo

Dilli ka Babu: Aayog takes nuanced approach to China stakes

The government’s decision was greeted by many nationalistic supporters of the government who saw in the move a bold stance against China

29 Apr 2020 8:07 PM

NITI Aayog building in the National Capital has been sealed for 48 hours, after a director level officer tested positive for coronavirus. (PTI Photo)

NITI Aayog building sealed for 48 hrs after officer tests positive for Covid19

A director level officer working at NITI Bhawan has been tested positive for Covid-19

28 Apr 2020 1:28 PM

This representative image shows a person monitoring a geofenced area (Photo | Flickr)

IIT-Bombay develops two apps to help civic bodies ensure individuals don't jump quarantine

The apps employ GPS data and geofencing to alert authorities of users breaching preset virtual geographical boundaries

30 Mar 2020 11:50 AM

Kashmiri health workers talk to local residents during a contact-tracing drive after the first person in the region tested positive on March 19, 2020. (Representative Image | AP)

India could soon have its own CoWin-20 app for contact tracing of people infected with COVID-19

The beta version of the app is being tested by a small group of individuals, say reports

25 Mar 2020 5:46 PM

In the last week of the year 2019, the Niti Aayog released the Sustainable Development Report 2019, where the status of states has improved in other subjects, but the status of women still remains the same and is serious.

Exploitation of women is a reality even in 21st century

The state of Uttarakhand is also called Dev Bhoomi — it also needs a lot of improvement in terms of the status of women.

11 Feb 2020 2:10 AM

What a comedown the Niti Aayog is from the Planning Commissions of old which were no rubber stamps of the Union government.

Crass opinion & Kashmiris

The top court slated the Union government for the Internet lockdown in the Valley for months together.

21 Jan 2020 4:32 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Did social engineering put paid to growth?

Ever since the BJP came to power, the government has never accepted that the economy is in doldrums.

11 Jan 2020 12:29 AM

PM Modi meets economists, experts at Niti Aayog

Among others, the meeting is being attended by Home Minister Amit Shah and other cabinet ministers.

09 Jan 2020 1:18 PM

Currently, there are four GST rate slabs -- 5 per cent, 12, per cent, 18 per cent and 28 per cent.

Niti Aayog member bats for 2 GST slabs, says rates should not be revised frequently

Central government is providing a subsidy of Rs 1.2 lakh cr and the states put together spend about Rs 1 lakh crore.

25 Dec 2019 3:07 PM

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan. (Photo: File)

White paper to reduce tax burden on steel sector in the offing

The white paper will focus on lessening the burden of taxes, cess and other duties on the local steel industry.

24 Dec 2019 10:52 AM

Leave growth to pundits, let’s end poverty instead

But the surprise is that so has newly created Telengana! Dividing states seems to do wonders for reducing inequality.

23 Oct 2019 1:56 AM

Niti CEO puts the pedal to the metal

From time to time, the Uttar Pradesh government is bitten by the austerity bug.

20 Oct 2019 12:10 AM

The EGoS will have the Niti Aayog CEO as its chairman, and the Railway Board chairman, the secretary, department of economic affairs, the secretary, housing and urban affairs ministry, and the financial commissioner (railways) as its members. (Representational Image)

Group set up to make 50 rail stations ‘world class’

The Railways have to take up 400 station projects to develop them for world-class facilities.

11 Oct 2019 4:35 AM

The sudden surge in reviving the vision document, sources said, has come after the nudge from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), with the directive that it has to be launched in 2020.

15-year vision plan launch slated for 2020

However, now there is a probability that it could be a 20-year draft covering the period between 2015 and 2035.

05 Oct 2019 2:05 AM

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