NITI Aayog Annual Report 2024-25: Quick Review Notes

Constitution: formed $1\ Jan\ 2015$ by Union Cabinet resolution
Governing Structure:
- Chairman: Hon’ble PM $\text{Shri Narendra Modi}$
- Vice-Chairman: $\text{Shri Suman Bery}$
- 4 Full-time Members, CEO & Ex-Officio Ministers
Mandate (4 pillars)
• Knowledge & Innovation
• NITI for States (co-operative & competitive federalism)
• Driving Transformational Change
• Monitoring & Evaluation
Key Objectives: shared national vision, village-to-national planning, focus on vulnerable sections, strategic & long-term policy, knowledge partnerships

Flagship Platforms
• Aspirational Districts Programme (112 districts, $49$ KPIs, real-time CoC dashboard)
• Aspirational Blocks Programme (500 blocks, $40$ KPIs, quarterly delta ranking)
• State Support Mission → 26 State Institutions for Transformation (SIT) + embedded PIUs
• NITI for States digital portal + Viksit Bharat Strategy Room (data visualisation)
Vision @2047: State-specific documents launched (e.g.
Viksit Gujarat, Swarna Andhra) & underway (Odisha, MP, Chhattisgarh, Bihar)
Workshop Series: 13 thematic events (data forum, cyber policy, city growth hubs, green transition, MSME exports, etc.)

In-House Lecture Series (Lectures 14-18): defence strategy, clean energy finance, heritage tourism, natural farming, statistical system
Key Partnerships: India Policy Forum, NITI-Berkeley-IGIDR financing dialogue, UKIIFB, US-India Sustainable Growth pillar, Indo-German roadmap, India-Saudi SPC etc.
Tools released:
• Revamped India Energy Security Scenarios $2047$
• India Climate & Energy Dashboard $3.0$

Agriculture: Strategy for self-reliant edible oils (potential + $43.5$ MT), National seaweed value-chain plan, Deep-sea fishing consultations
Electric Mobility:
• PM e-Drive scheme $\text{(Rs 10,900 cr)}$ demand incentive
• PM-eBus Sewa (PSM) $\text{Rs 3,435 cr}$ ; NEBP 50k e-buses
• Shoonya campaign $723$ million clean rides/deliveries
Green Transition: CCUS mission prep, Small Modular Reactors, Circular-economy WGs (ELVs, tyres, Li-ion, e-waste), Net-Zero working groups
Governance: Working group on Model Fair Price Shops; Senior citizen care roadmap; Pandemic preparedness 100-day action framework
Health/Nutrition: School Health Mission framework (6 pillars), WINGS anaemia pilots, Brain-Health taskforce, AMR 2.0 draft, Drugs for Rare Diseases (4 indigenous drugs)
Industry: Reports on Electronics & GVCs (target $US\$500\,bn$ output by $2030$ ), SAFE worker housing model, Chemicals & Auto GVC studies ongoing
Services: NITI platform for SDG-5 district analysis; women-friendly workplaces compendium

Output-Outcome Monitoring Framework: $70$ ministries, $3000+$ indicators; 23 review meetings (2024-25)
Data Governance Quality Index: 7 rounds completed; focuses on data strategy, systems, outcomes
Global Indices for Reforms & Growth: 27 indices, 18 nodal ministries
Evaluations: 155 studies since 2015; 4 major CS scheme reviews in 2024-25

New programmes: LIPI (vernacular innovation), Frontier (J&K, NE, Aspirational Blocks), Human-Capital dev (5500 professionals), Deep-Tech Reactor, State Innovation Missions, Industry Accelerators, Atal Sectoral Launchpads, International collaborations

SDG India Index 2023-24: national score $71$ (up from $66$ ); 32 States/UTs now ‘Front Runners’ ( $65–99$ )
India led discussions at UN-HLPF & hosted 8th South & South-West Asia SDG Forum; joined Global Alliance vs Hunger & Poverty

Conducted 7 International Training Programmes (204 participants, 55+ countries) & 2 domestic programmes (82 officials)
Ongoing studies: CSC Digital Library, DISHA monitoring, EPFO coverage, SDG localisation etc.

Evaluated project cost appraised by PFPA (Jan–Dec 2024): $Rs\,21.1\,lakh\,cr$ across $143$ proposals
Rural sector flagship funding (e.g. PM-GKAY, PM-Awas, Jal Jeevan) underpin improvements in Goals $1,6,7,9,11$
Foreign collaborations: $14$ new MoUs under India-Saudi SPC; $10$ bilateral tech missions (CCUS, CCS, green hydrogen)