Assess the role of NITI Aayog over the past decade in promoting cooperative and competitive federalism.

The National Institute for Transforming India was set up by an executive resolution in 2015 displacing the revenue planning commission.

NITI Aayog's role:

a) Team India concept = equal participation of state in policies

b) Collaboration in programmes e.g. Aspirational Districts with multiple stakeholders

c) Cascading Board meetings = rotating State CMs - to participate

d) Distict sitss assistance = to map amongst state with text policies

e) Policy participation =

a) Various rankings = Eg Swachta Trust to spice competition among State.

b) Attracting investment = Eg Trust India under NITI Aayog monitor = State compate for Doing Business ranking also.

c) V2M Agg policies = to gain in partly implementation e.g. Choice of Small Cities through each city's plan.

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state invited to deliberate upon various policies Eg Swachh Bharat Mission

d) Directing union support for programmes = Eg State Thinking labs in various district - help education

g) Unified planning framework = Eg 3-year across agenda by NITI Aayog.

a) Various rankings = Eg Swachta Trust to spice competition among State.

b) Attracting investment = Eg Trust India under NITI Aayog monitor = State compate for Doing Business ranking also.

c) V2M Agg policies = to gain in partly implementation e.g. Choice of Small Cities through each city's plan.

d) Squeezing extreme = Eg Fiscal exploit indicator by NITI = State under also reform.

Yet shortcomings of NITI:

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d) Squeezing extreme = Eg Fiscal exploit indicator by NITI = State under also reform.

Yet shortcomings of NITI:

Way forward:

NITI Aayog has served as a vessel in ensuring federalism (PM modi) ensuring in able.