Niti Aayog
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States should be allowed to make their own plans: Devendra Fadnavis
National | Feb 08, 2015, 11:00 PM ISTMumbai: Terming the first meeting of NITI Aayog's Governing Council as “very successful”, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today said he sought that states should be allowed to prepare their own strategic plans and NITI
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Market economy will benefit Gujarat but harm Assam: Tarun Gogoi
National | Feb 08, 2015, 07:53 PM ISTNew Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today rued that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stress on shifting from plan to market economy will benefit big industrial states like Gujarat but harm small and backward states
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Mamata Banerjee skips NITI Aayog meet
National | Feb 08, 2015, 06:47 PM ISTNew Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was today conspicuous by her absence at the first governing council meeting of NITI Aayog here.No one from the West Bengal government has come to the meeting,
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Mamata jeopardised Bengal's welfare, says BJP
National | Feb 08, 2015, 04:49 PM ISTKolkata: The BJP on Sunday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of jeopardising the welfare of her state by not attending the first meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog, chaired by Prime Minister
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PM Modi to seek Chief Ministers' views on budget, infra and development at NITI Aayog meet
Feb 08, 2015, 01:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today seek views of Chief Ministers and Lt Governors on Budget 2015-16, flagship schemes and infrastructure projects like rail and roads to put the economy on high growth
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PM Narendra Modi for taking full advantage of prevailing global environment
Feb 06, 2015, 05:54 PM ISTNew Delhi: Keen to encash on drop in oil prices and favourable global economic outlook, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today courted economists for ideas to make the ensuing budget growth-oriented and bring investors back.At the
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PM Modi seeks ideas on budget at NITI Aayog's maiden meet
Feb 06, 2015, 05:33 PM ISTNew Delhi: Ahead of his government's first full year budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sought ideas from economists to attract investments, create jobs and finance infrastructure to put India back on high growth
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PM Narendra Modi to seek experts' views at first NITI Aayog meeting today
Feb 06, 2015, 10:24 AM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today brainstorm with experts in the maiden meeting of NITI Aayog to find ways to boost economy as government prepares to present its first full-fledged Budget later this
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PM Modi to seek experts' views at first NITI meeting on February 6
Feb 05, 2015, 05:49 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will, on Friday, brainstorm with experts in the maiden meeting of NITI Aayog to find ways to boost economy as government prepares to present its first full-fledged Budget later
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PM Modi to interact with economists, experts at NITI Aayog
Feb 03, 2015, 01:38 PM ISTNew Delhi: In the first meeting of NITI Aayog on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with eminent economists and experts across sectors along with the existing members of the newly constituted body. "The meeting
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NITI Aayog to guide implementation of 12th five-year plan: Report
Feb 01, 2015, 10:33 AM ISTNew Delhi: The newly constituted National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog will monitor implementation of the 12th five-year plan of the previous UPA government and allocation of resources to the backward regions of the
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VK Saraswat joins NITI Aayog as member
India | Jan 30, 2015, 09:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: Former Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief V.K. Saraswat on Friday took over as member of newly-created NITI Aayog here.A PhD in combustion engineering, Saraswat played a very significant role in the
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PM Modi calls for strategies to halt left wing extremism
National | Jan 21, 2015, 11:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday called for the development of strategies to "stop the spread of left wing extremism" in the country.Chairing a high-level review on tribal welfare, Modi said: "There is a
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NITI Aayog to monitor government policies: Planning Minister
Jan 20, 2015, 06:35 AM ISTNew Delhi: NITI Aayog, the revamped Planning Commission, will actively monitor and evaluate implementation of government programmes and initiatives, Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh said on Monday."A major task before the NITI Aayog is to
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Excise duty hike aimed at benefitting pvt companies: Karuna
National | Jan 17, 2015, 07:31 PM ISTChennai: Alleging that the Centre's announcement to increase the excise duty on petrol and diesel was aimed at benefitting private oil marketing companies, DMK President M Karunanidhi today asked the government to scrutinise its decision
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PM Modi pitches for making India a $ 20 trillion economy
Jan 17, 2015, 09:22 AM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called for making India a USD 20 trillion economy, while stressing laws must evolve with time and his government had taken several initiatives towards "transforming India".Addressing the
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Panagariya to focus on policy-making, labour reforms and SMEs top priority
India | Jan 16, 2015, 09:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: The first Vice-Chairman of the newly formed NITI Aayog, Arvind Panagariya, has come out with his future plans for the organisation. He says his primary focus will be to make policies rather keep
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Arvind Panagariya takes charge as Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog
India | Jan 13, 2015, 12:02 PM ISTNew Delhi: The first Vice-Chairman of the newly-created NITI Aayog, noted economist Arvind Panagariya, took charge here today.The NITI Aayog CEO Sindhushree Khuallar and other senior officials briefed the Vice-Chairman about the newly created body.Panagariya
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After planning commission government to reorganize UGC?
India | Jan 12, 2015, 09:38 AM ISTNew Delhi: After restructuring Planning Commission as NITI Aayog, NDA government is planning to revamp University Grants Commission (UGC), as well. This will be the second Nehru-era institution that may get a complete overhaul. After
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Former Plan Panel secretary Sindhushree Khullar appointed NITI Aayog's CEO
Jan 11, 2015, 08:55 AM ISTNew Delhi: Former Planning Commission Secretary Sindhushree Khullar was today appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the newly formed NITI Aayog.Khullar, a retired IAS officer, has been appointed on contract basis for a period of