-The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog, established as the government’s think tank, could soon become planning body for the Centre and states, similar to its predecessor — the erstwhile Planning Commission.
However, the institution would adopt a bottom to top approach as it moves on from five year plans to longterm perspective planning.
This would keep it in sync with the government’s focus on cooperative federalism.
A senior government official told ET that a division in the Aayog is working on a national plan spanning over a decade, dovetailing the salient features of state plans in a bottom to top approach of decentralised planning while also incorporating national programmes and social priorities.
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