{"id":195213,"date":"2022-07-12T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=195213"},"modified":"2022-07-12T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T08:13:06","slug":"suman-bery-writes-niti-aayogs-role-in-ensuring-collaboration-between-states-and-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/suman-bery-writes-niti-aayogs-role-in-ensuring-collaboration-between-states-and-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Suman Bery writes: NITI Aayog\u2019s role in ensuring collaboration between states and centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201cSuman Bery writes: NITI Aayog\u2019s role in ensuring collaboration between states and centre<\/strong>\u201d published in The Indian Express<\/strong> on 12th Jul 22<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS2 – Polity – Relations between Centre and States<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: NITI Aayog and improving Centre-State relations<\/p>\n

Context<\/strong>: The Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog lists out seven propositions centered around his understanding of NITI Aayog\u2019s role in enhancing alignment between the Centre and states.<\/p>\n

How has NITI Aayog helped in improving federalism?<\/h5>\n

Since its inception in 2015, NITI Aayog has been instrumental in promoting competitive and cooperative federalism.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> NITI Aayog organises the annual meeting of the Governing Council (GC) under the leadership of the PM. <\/strong>It brings together chief ministers\/Lieutenant-governors of the states\/UTs to discuss inter-sectoral, inter-departmental and federal issues. The aim is to accelerate the implementation of the National Development Agenda<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

How can NITI Aayog help improve alignment b\/w Centre and States?<\/h5>\n

States must identify their strengths<\/strong>: States are the Indian economy\u2019s growth drivers. They control urban governance, agriculture, power distribution, land records modernisation, labour law simplification and pollution control.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> For India to remain one of the fastest-growing major economies, states must identify their strengths. NITI Aayog must ensure productive engagement and dialogue with the states to develop a growth roadmap.<\/p>\n

Income convergence across states<\/strong>: Despite country-wide economic growth, the less developed Indian states are not catching up.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> NITI Aayog must address this crucial issue through improved governance structures, adequate financial development and infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Performance on social indicators<\/strong> is a sound metric for assessing a state\u2019s performance. Social outcomes are de-linked from income in several states. Mizoram\u2019s performance on the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is one example. Despite being a middle-income state, its IMR is the lowest at 3 deaths per 1,000 live births, whereas the national average is 28.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> NITI Aayog has developed several social sector indices and dashboards for effectively tracking and monitoring outcomes. Regular monitoring and performance evaluation will incentivize states to achieve better social outcomes.<\/p>\n

Growth at the grassroots<\/strong>: We must focus on ensuring that growth originates from the grassroots, while addressing significant inter-state and inter-district variations. The PM launched the Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) to address these challenges through data-driven, outcome-based governance. While lauding the ADP during the conference, the PM emphasized the need to convert the Aspirational Districts into \u201cinspirational districts<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> NITI Aayog must focus on guiding state governments in replicating the ADP template at the block level and for districts not categorised as aspirational.<\/p>\n

Better managed urbanisation<\/strong> is crucial. Cities face challenges such as affordable housing, water supply and waste management. Further, there is a need to tap into resources other than government budgets, such as monetising land assets and engaging private capital in service delivery.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Efforts to empower and make large urban local bodies atmanirbhar are the needs of the hour.<\/p>\n

Sharing of best practices<\/strong>: Several best practices are already being implemented by states across India. NITI Aayog must act as an intermediary<\/strong> between the Centre and states to ensure cross-sharing of these best practices, insights and perspectives.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Some areas that merit particular focus are the use of advanced technology using blockchain and AI, development of social registry and reducing compliance burden etc.<\/p>\n

Conversation around climate change challenge<\/strong>: The world has so far witnessed two models of development\u2014 the Industrial Revolution and the rise of East Asia. Both depended on cheap, fossil-fuel energy. India aspires to grow equally fast but is now subject to a carbon constraint.<\/p>\n

At the state level, it is critical to understand how the challenges facing states might be affected by decarbonisation, both with regard to mitigation and adaptation.<\/p>\n

India needs to continue its national debate around this challenge. Using its convening power, NITI Aayog is well-positioned to generate such a conversation and guide states to catalyse climate action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post is based on the article \u201cSuman Bery writes: NITI Aayog\u2019s role in ensuring collaboration between states and centre\u201d published in The Indian Express on 12th Jul 22. Syllabus: GS2 – Polity – Relations between Centre and States Relevance: NITI Aayog and improving Centre-State relations Context: The Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog lists out… Continue reading Suman Bery writes: NITI Aayog\u2019s role in ensuring collaboration between states and centre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-195213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":28,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698216615},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}