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

NITI Aayog was introduced and abolished in 2015 replacing the 'centralised old Planning Commission and embarks upon new era of cooperative and competitive federalism.

Role of NITI Aayog in promoting :-

(i) Bringing centre and state on same platform to discuss and negotiate over the centre state issues. (b) team India

(ii) Bargaining power to state as collective unit in designing bargain

in central pool of funds.

(iii) Prioritising of competitive national plan (a) Strategy for new india@. (+)

fExamination of Competitive federalism:

(i) Various indices and reports in comparing state performance. (b) Index, International jurisdiction Index. (W.M.P.I)

(ii) Recommendation of performance derived quaint to distribution among states. (b) operational district perform

(iii) competition among centre and state for allocation of resources based on performance used indicators.

However, there are challenge faced by NITI Aayog :-

creating asymmetry between states.

(b) Scrutiny state aligned about uuri laying field.

(iii) Recommendation Native stattin planning commission type powers and influence. (b) planning commission i stati cacmell

(iii) legacy of planning commission state located. (c) Centralization of reserve

(iv) Question over methodological inadequacies

Thus, NITI Aayog can play an important task in India's journey to be tant role in India journey to biggest