Planning Commission tough on slow-moving projects

Posted by Equitymaster When the Modi government took charge in May 2014, one of the first pre-poll promises that it kept, was to scrap the Planning commission . As we have written before, we believed that the Commission was a relic of the days of the License ...

New Delhi: Assuring “full cooperation” to the Centre for restructuring the Planning Commission, Telangana has sought for sub-groups comprising Chief Ministers to deal with state specific issues like ‘Left Wing Terrorism’.Addressing a ...

Indian-American economist Arvind Panagariya, who often questioned the need for Planning Commission in a free-market economy, will be the vice-chairman of the newly created NITI Aayog (Policy Commission). Handpicked by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 62-year-old ...

'A lot will depend on the first Aayog and the power it derives.' Rashme Sehgal on what we can expect from the Planning Commission's replacement. One of the main edifices of the Nehruvian era, the 60-year old Planning Commission, has been disbanded to be replaced by the National Institute for Transforming India, NITI Aayog. Till six months ago, the all powerful Planning Commission housed in the five-storied Yojana Bhavan was a place of pilgrimage for chief ministers and state secretaries who ...

Tashkent City district election commission on elections of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan held a briefing for media representatives. Thereon chairman of district election commission J.Inogamov gave information on the implementation ...

Jan. 13--Former County Commissioners President Blaine Young has tendered his resignation from the planning commission post that the state's attorney general said he never held in the first place. Young wrote in a Monday email that while the ...

New Delhi After replacing it with NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), the government has archived the website of the erstwhile Planning Commission while the new body will launch its own website in a few days. NITI Aayog ...

State governments are expected to play a more significant role Recently, the decades-old Yojana Bhavan wore a new look and feel, and the corridors of the five-storeyed building were painted afresh. The body occupying the building, the Planning Commission, had been restructured and renamed the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. Even as the employees of the erstwhile Planning Commission face teething troubles, with no clearly defined function or role, Business Standard ...

Hitting out at the government for its decision to restructure the Planning Commission and rechristen it as “Niti Aayog”, the Opposition on Thursday said the move is just a “fluff” and mere “gimmickry”. They also expressed their apprehension that ...