Question
Distinguish between Planning Commission and NITI Aayog.
| NITI Aayog | Planning Commission |
| (i) It serves as an advisory Think Tank. | (i) It served as the extra-constitutional body. |
| (ii) It draws membership from wider expertise. | (ii) It had limited expertise. |
| (iii) It serves in the spirit of cooperative federalism as states are equal partners. | (iii) States participated as spectators in the annual plan meetings. |
| (iv) Secretaries to be known as CEO appointed by Prime Minister. | (iv) Secretaries were appointed through the usual process. |
| (v) It focuses upon the Bottom-up approach. | (v) It followed a Top-down approach. |
| (vi) It does not process mandate to impose policies. | (vi) It imposed policies on states and tied allocation of funds with projects it approved. |
| (vii) It does not have powers to allocate funds, which are vested in the finance minister. | (vii) It had powers to allocate funds to ministers and state government. |
| (viii) It was established on 1st January 2015. | (viii) It was established on 15th March 1950. |
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