Skip to main content

NITI Aayog may soon start its regional centres

NITI Aayog may soon start its regional centres::

  • NITI Aayog, the Centre’s premier think-tank, may soon have its regional centres across the country, starting with the four metropolitan cities.
  • Business Standard has learnt from sources that the government is keen that the Aayog opens its regional centres to foster the spirit of cooperative federalism and boost participation from the states in all matters of national importance.
  • In the erstwhile Planning Commission of India, the programme evaluation office (PEO), which was its attached office, had seven regional offices and eight project evaluation offices located at Kolkata, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Shimla, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Patna, Thiruvananthapuram and Ahmedabad.
  • Each regional office was headed by a regional evaluation officer of the rank of director/deputy adviser and PEOs were headed by a project evaluation officer of the rank of senior research officer.
  • Adviser (evaluation) was the topmost boss of the PEO, who was based in the headquarters of Delhi.
  • After the abolition of the Commission last year and the birth of NITI Aayog, the office of PEO was in the process of being merged with the Aayog.

Some officials said it could be the existing offices of PEO are converted into regional centres of NITI Aayog.


FOSTERING SPIRIT OF COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM
  • Centre wants NITI Aayog to have regional centres
  • Regional centres will help in fostering closer cooperation with states on important national issues
  • Erstwhile Planning Commission’s attached office Programme Evaluation Office (PEO) also had seven regional centres and eight other offices
  • After the abolition of the Planning Commission, the PEO was in the process of being absorbed in the Aayog
  • The Aayog would also work with states on bringing out papers on critical national issues

  • The PEO was established in 1952 as an independent organisation under the Planning Commission with a specific task of evaluating the community development programmes and other intensive area development schemes.
  • “Such a move will bring about greater coordination between the Centre and states on various issues which will require such cooperation....for example, such a centre in Bengaluru or Chennai could serve as the conduit for the four southern states with the central government in Delhi,” the official explained.
  • The idea it to engage the Aayog in preparing long-term plans and objectives for the country outside the structured mandate of a Five-Year Plan.
  • The plan itself is expected to be replaced with a medium-term perspective in which the Aayog might provide an overview on what the government needs to achieve in various sectors over a stipulated period of time.
Source: Business Standard
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

India Tech Vision-2035

India Tech Vision-2035 India's technology thinktank under the ministry of science & technology has come out with `Technology Vision 2035' here at the ongoing Indian Science Congress, identifying the challenges ahead and how they can be dealt with through technological interventions while realising the dream of a developed India by the year 2035. The thinktank -Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) -in the vision document lists a technology roadmap for India, giving details of 12 sectors and technologies that in some cases exist but need to be deployed, some in the pilot stage that must be scaled up and technologies in R&D stage. It, in fact, talks about many future technologies, ranging from flying cars, real time translation software, personalised medicine, wearable devices, e-sensing (e-nose and e-tongue) to 100% recyclable materials among others which may be used in different areas to solve day-to-day problems “The trajectories del...
Post a Comment
Read more

Inland Waterways in India

Here are some key points you need to know: The bill seeks to add 106 inland waterways to the existing six National Waterways on the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture and comments of several state governments The bill will also look after the renovation and maintenance of the existing waterways Out of the 106 new waterways, 18 have already been identified. These include five waterways each from Karnataka and Meghalaya, three each from Maharashtra and Kerala, one each from Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan The bill also aims to help the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) to develop the feasible stretches for Shipping and Navigation. Let us look at the six existing National Waterways in India: National Waterway 1 (NW1) The National Waterway No. 1 uses a 1,620-kilometre stretch of the Ganges River. It was declared a national waterway in the year 1986 and runs from Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal....
Post a Comment
Read more

Budget basics: A glossary of terms used in Budget

Disinvestment Receipts The term refers to the money raised by the Government through disinvestment, or the sale of its equity stake in companies it owns. Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act The Act is an attempt to make the Government adhere to a phased plan to reduce fiscal deficit, which denotes an excess of expenditure over revenue. Dividend Distribution Tax This is a tax levied on companies that pay out dividends to its shareholders, i.e. share a portion of earnings with them. Venture Capital Funds These are funds that invest in startups, a financially riskier proposition than investing in established companies. Securities Transaction Tax It is a tax on all transactions done over the stock exchanges involving securities such as shares, derivatives, and equity-linked mutual funds. Wholesale Price Index (WPI) It is a measure of inflation, or price change, arrived at after regularly measuring the prices of a slew of wholesale goods. Consumer Price...
Post a Comment
Read more