Mathai was a well-known economist of that era, and his public disavowal cast a shadow over the expert body. It was left to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his trusted band of technocrats to repair ...

Today marks the 10th birthday of a national organisation—the Niti Aayog—that succeeded the Planning Commission. What was it meant to do? And what has it achieved in the last decade?

Several states requested an increase in their share of the central divisible pool from 41 per cent to 50 per cent, with ...

And charting five-year plans for the transition is Niti Aayog, the very entity that replaced the erstwhile Planning Commission. Once the roadmap is ready, sector-specific ministries will decide on ...

Niti Aayog’s performance in these 10 years ... by the logic of its own creation. By 2015, the Planning Commission had reduced itself to functioning as an outdated tool of centralisation that ...

The opposition CPI(M) and Congress, joined by other political parties, urged the 16th Finance Commission to guarantee direct funding for Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC). They ...