New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has chosen four infrastructure projects of the Delhi government and will help in their execution under its development support policy. Two of these projects are related to transit-oriented development – smart city at North Delhi’s Gulabi Bagh and ISBT Sarai Kale Khan in southeast Delhi. The other two are the […]
New Delhi: India is passing through the biggest technological revolution which will make data analytics critical for delivery of services to the people, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Thursday. Leakages in government schemes are now vanishing and in due course all benefits provided by the government will go straight to the intended beneficiary’s […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government should take steps to incorporate farmer-friendly reforms such as establishment of suitable agriculture market and implement land lease norms necessary to double income of peasants in the State by 2022, said NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand on the sidelines of a seminar at the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) […]
New Delhi: Stepping up its effort to acquire the special category state (SCS) status, Odisha today once again put forth its long-standing demand at the governing council meeting of NITI Aayog here. Attending the meet, chief minister Naveen Patnaik also presented the development picture of Odisha under his leadership. “I demanded the same status at […]
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday left for New Delhi, to attend Niti Aayog’s Governing Council meet at the national capital tomorrow. The meeting will be chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Before leaving on a five-day tour, Patnaik said he will raise the issue of Special Status tag for Odisha at the meeting. […]
New Delhi: NITI Aayog today said the goverment has provided Rs 367.93 crore to Odisha and Rs 200 crore to Bihar as special assistance. “On recommendation of NITI Aayog, Rs 367.93 crore has been released today as special assistance to the State of Odisha,” the government’s think tank said in a tweet. “On NITI Aayog’s […]
NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya on Saturday said there is no relevance of special category state status for Odisha in the present scenario as the new policy on resources division between the Centre and States benefits the later the most
Asking the Niti Aayog to declare Odisha as a special category state through a special dispensation, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday claimed the state would face a net loss of Rs 1776 crore in Central fund flow in 2015-16 despite increase in tax devolution
Promotion of skill development and creation of skilled manpower within the states were some of the key issues discussed today at the first meeting of NITI Aayog's sub-group of chief ministers on skill development
New Delhi:Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday called for making India a $20 trillion economy, while stressing laws must evolve with time and his government had taken several initiatives towards “transforming India”. Addressing the Economic Times Global Business Summit here, Modi said that small acts can drive reforms and there was no contradiction between doing big-ticket […]
Kolkata: The Niti Aayog will financially empower states as they can choose the central government schemes based on their requirements, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here Wednesday.
Economist Arvind Panagariya has been appointed vice chairman of the newly-constituted National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog