In a budget speech made 75 years ago, the then finance minister John Mathai announced the setting up of a new expert body to ...

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?

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 ...

The first has been to extract Niti Aayog from a direct financial allocation role. This is of particular relevance to India’s states, which earlier had to seek the Planning Commission’s funding ...

Yet, 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 By 2015, the Planning Commission had reduced itself to functioning as an outdated tool of centralisation ...

In keeping with these changing times, the Government of India has decided to set up NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), in place of the erstwhile Planning Commission, as a means ...

After supersession of the Planning Commission and its replacement by the NITI Aayog, only three part time Members were left with the Telecom commission. In order to lend values to the deliberations of ...