The meeting is being attended by all chief ministers, except Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal) and K Chandrashekhar Rao (Telangana), and senior union ministers
Union says 'experiments' of privatisation and franchisee models had failed across the country; asks Centre to discuss related issues with power sector engineers for framing a fruitful power policy
CII has expressed concerns over the timing of the move and the haste with which the government is pushing through electric mobility
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a series of meetings with technocrats, and cabinet colleagues, discussing how to radically redefine innovations and technology on manufacturing to compete with China
Amit Shah, 3 others now ex-officio members
According to official sources, besides Shah, Defence Minister Rajanth Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar will be ex-officio members
Headed by the Prime Minister, the Governing Council meets regularly, and its first meeting took place on February 8, 2015
Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were last week declared landslide winners of India's general election with an increased majority in the Lok Sabha
NITI Aayog, Rajiv Kumar says, is in touch with the World Bank for modernising the country's statistical system
Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar said NITI Aayog would submit an action plan to the new government
According to the Aayog, an incremental $957 billion could be added to the GDP by 2035 by adopting AI, boosting India's annual growth by 1.3 percentage points by 2035
The meeting was attended by Niti Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar and its CEO Amitabh Kant, along with other members
In 2015, India had established 2030 as a critically important horizon for 17 Sustainable Development Goals
This is part of the overall plans of the government to lay down procedure and mechanism for monetisation of non-core assets of CPSEs, which include mainly land and buildings
Vice President Rajiv Kumar also pitched for segregating different aspects of Reserve Bank's responsibilities
Committee chairman says NPPA should be made independent and stronger
Contrary to what some have said, NITI Aayog's 'Strategy for New India @75' attempts to provide a framework for making development a mass movement
The development areas include health and nutrition, education, agriculture and water resources, financial inclusion, skill development, and basic infrastructure
Goa, Manipur and Kerala are front-runners in curbing malnutrition
The recommendation on replacing the MSP with a minimum reserve price, which acts as a floor for auction in mandis, will also be difficult to implement, given the multiplicity of mandis in India