NITI Aayog completes 10 years of its establishment. Critically examine its role in the planning and development paradigm of governance in India. (Answer in 250 words)

NITI Aayog features: 1) Non-statutory 2) Governing council: PM head, CM of states parts 3) Think-tank 4) helps as per task specific 5) Outreach on Nation East NITI Aayog role in development and planning paradigm: 1) Innovation: in scheme implementation as 'think-tank' as Aspiration District Program (112 District model on convergence) 2) Data-based governance: by better use of Data for policy analysis as NITI@ITGgat 3) Bottom-up planning: with state involvement unlike Planning Commission as Roman scheme planning 4) Long-term planning: with focus on NITI@2047 visiting 5) Regional specific coordination and plan as PM-Devine: help in NITI sub-group of 2017 6) Competitive Federalism: through various index for competitive spirit as SPC - 2atlas 7) New Policy, Act support through research as model APMC act (CNITI Aayog) 8) Consensus building among center and state form (cooperative federalism) as Cooperative ventures Challenge 9) State-level transforming agency support

continued from page 29: Challenges to NITI Aayog: 1) Limited fiscal role unlike Planning 2) Lack of autonomy: seen as center organ as mamata Banerjee protest 3) Recommendation not implemented by various State as model tenancy act pending 4) Lack data on various domain like health population as Census delay 5) Lack of statutory status reduce it credibility, independence 6) Limited state role in Index formulation policy support 7) Less focus on community based plan 8) Irregular Tokenistic meeting (NITI Ahead)