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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

In the last five years, the economy has grown at about 7.5 per cent. The country's growth rate of 8.1 per cent in the last quarter of 2017-18 has fallen to 5 per cent in April-June, 2019-20, Amitabh Kant said at a World Economic Forum event in New Delhi on Thursday. (Photo: File)

Many more structural reforms in offing to propel growth: Kant

I think many more structural reforms are in the offing. The government has pushed for disinvestment, said the Niti Aayog CEO.

03 Oct 2019 3:43 PM

We are in the process of appointing international consultants for the property (sale). They will be handling these transactions, Dheeraj Bhatnagar, an additional secretary in DIPAM, said at the annual Capam event here. (Photo: PTI | Representational)

Govt to appoint global consultant to sell surplus land of PSUs

The government is at present on the look-out to tap newer sources of revenue as it tries to address the country's developmental needs.

26 Sep 2019 10:12 PM

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant. (Photo: PTI)

Challenge before India is to grow at 8-9 pc and sustain it: Kant

The government also announced a slew of measures to boost exports and real estate sector.

25 Sep 2019 1:34 PM

Manufacturing is barely limping at around 5 per cent and we need to lift it to 15 per cent, said chairman of Maruti Suzuki RC Bhargava. (Photo: File)

Tax cuts to boost industry; now need to focus on spurring demand: India Inc

These tax cuts will have tremendous positive effect. We will soon see a turnaround, said Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej.

22 Sep 2019 6:17 PM

The government is active, the fundamentals of Indian economy is intact and we will continue to do whatever it required to take india back to high trajectory growth rate, said Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant. (Photo: File)

Govt doing everything possible to bring India back on high growth path: Kant

We need to think what kind of innovation we need to undertake to attain a high growth, said Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.

18 Sep 2019 6:16 PM

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