PLANNING COMMISSION

• Setup – March 1950 • Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Chairman of the Planning

Commission.• Authority• Promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people ,

by -Five Year Plan

1. Efficient use of Resources2. Increasing production3. Employment Opportunities

RENAMING OF PLANNING COMMISSION

• New Avatar as ‘NITI AAYOG’.

• ‘One Size fits all approach’

• “No futuristic vision in the post-reform period”.

• Focus on Indian Economy

ABOUT• NITI Aayog is a Government of India policy think-tank.

• The acronym ‘NITI’ stands for National Institution for Transforming India.

• ‘Aayog’ is the Hindi word for ‘commission’.

• Established by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

• Formation – 1st January 2015,

First meeting - 8th February 2015.

MEMBERS• Chairperson: Prime Minister Narendra Modi

• Ceo: Sindhushree Khullar Ias

• Vice Chairperson: Arvind Panagariya

• Ex-officio Members: Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Suresh Prabhu And Radha Mohan Singh

• Special Invitees: Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Zubin Irani And Thawarchand Gehlot

• Full-time Members: Bibek Debroy & V. K. Saraswat

• Governing Council: All Chief Ministers And Lieutenant Governors Of States And Union Territories

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NITI AAYOG & PLANNING

COMMISION

NITI AAYOGTo be an advisory body, or a think-tank. The powers to allocate funds might be vested in the finance ministryThe number of full-time members could be fewer than Planning CommissionState governments are expected to play a more significant role than they did in the Planning CommissionTo be known at the CEO and to be appointed by the prime minister

PLANNING COMMISSIONEnjoyed the powers to allocate funds to ministries and state governments

The last Commission had eight full-time membersStates' role was limited to the National Development Council and annual interaction during Plan meetingsSecretaries or member secretaries were appointment through the usual process

Financial Clout

Full-time members

States’ Role

Member Secretary

OBJECTIVES• Formulation of plans.

• National security Interest.

• Social Stability.

• To focus on technology upgradation and capacity building

• To monitor the implementation of programmes and initiatives.

• Policy support

• Safeguarding of our environmental and ecological assets.

INITIATIVES• AADHAR ( Unique Identification Authority of India )

• NILERD ( National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development )

• India Energy Security Scenarios.

• Swatchh Bharat Mission.

• Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund.

• Intereact with Hon’ble PM.

• India Smart City Mission

UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORITY OF INDIA

• 12 Digit individual identification number

• Issued by UIDAI on behalf of Government of India

• Proof of Identity and Address

• Biometric and Demographic information

• Replaces all other ID’s

NILERD( Formerly Institute of Applied Manpower Research )

• Established as an autonomous institute in 1962.

• Research

• Data Collection

• Education and Training in Human Resource Development and Human Capital Planning

INDIA ENERGY SECURITY SCENARIOS 2047

• Energy Scenario building tool.

• Develop energy pathways leading up to the year 2047.

• Suggest measures to shift energy patterns .

• Reduced Import dependency for India.

• Web Tool.

SWACHH BHARAT MISSION

• National Campaign by Government of India.

• Officially Launched on 2 October 2014.

• Cleanliness drive

• Participation from 3 Million Government employees , school and college students .

• 9 selected Public figures.

• Established by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru then in 1948 .

• To assist displaced person from Pakistan.

• Now utilized to render immediate relief to families of those killed in natural calamities like Floods, Earthquakes, Tsunamis etc.

• To victims of major accidents and riots.

• Entirely Public Contribution.

• No Budgetary support .

• Corpus fund invested with banks.

SMART CITY MISSION

• Basic Infrastructure

• ‘Smart’ solutions to make infrastructure and services better.

• Area based development.

• Clean & Sustainable environment.

• Retrofitting, Redevelopment & Greenfield.

CRITICISMCongress :"The real issue is do you (the government) have a substantive meaningful programme to reform the Planning Commission?". "If you (the BJP government) simply want to abolish it (the commission), because it is something which (Jawaharlal) Nehru created for this country and you don't like Nehru or simply because it was run by the Congress for 60 years and you don't like the Congress, that is pitiable," he said.

The Communist Party of India-Marxist said a mere change in the name would not yield the desired results. "Mere changing this nomenclature, and this sort of gimmickry is not going to serve the purpose. Let us wait and see what the government is eventually planning," CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said.