NITI Aayog

7 notes tagged NITI Aayog.

• Polity

  Constitutional and Non-Constitutional Bodies

  Why a body's origin (Constitution, Act, or resolution) decides its category, with deep dives on the Attorney General and the Lokpal Act, 2013.

• Polity

  NITI Aayog: Why It Is Neither Constitutional Nor Statutory, and How It Differs from the Planning Commission

  NITI Aayog was set up by a Cabinet resolution, not an Act or an article, which is the single fact every question on this body actually tests. Composition, functions, and the real contrast with the Planning Commission it replaced.

• Polity

  Prime Minister: Appointment, NITI Aayog, and the Kitchen Cabinet

  What is genuinely specific to the office beyond Article 75's bare appointment clause: hung-Lok-Sabha convention, NITI Aayog chairmanship, why the whole Council falls with the PM, and the Kitchen Cabinet.

• Polity

  Chief Minister: NITI Aayog, Zonal Councils, and Key Appointments

  What is genuinely specific to the office beyond Article 164's appointment machinery: NITI Aayog Governing Council membership, Zonal Council vice-chairmanship, and advisory roles the bare text doesn't spell out.

• Geography

  Planning and Sustainable Development in the Indian Context

  Why irrigating the Thar Desert waterlogged it instead, and how NITI Aayog's cooperative-federalism model differs from the Planning Commission's top-down five-year plans it replaced.

• Economy

  Human Development: HDI, IHDI, GDI, GII and MPI

  The exact HDI formula and India's current rank, plus the real difference between IHDI, GDI, GII and the national MPI, sourced to UNDP directly.

• Economy

  Planning Commission to NITI Aayog: What Changed

  Why the Planning Commission was an extra-constitutional body from 1950, what power it lost to NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015, and its real composition.