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NITI Aayog is developing itself as a State-of-the-art Resource Centre, with the necessary resources, knowledge and skills, that will enable it to act with speed, promote research and innovation, provide strategic policy vision for the government, and deal with contingent issues.

NITI Aayog’s entire gamut of activities can be divided into four main heads:

1. Design Policy & Programme Framework
2. Foster Cooperative Federalism
3. Monitoring & Evaluation
4. Think Tank and Knowledge & Innovation Hub

 Functions of NITI Aayog

POLICY AND PROGRAMMES OF NITI AAYOG

1. SWACHH BHARAT MISSION (SBM)–The mission was launched on 2 October 2014 to achieve open defecation free nation and ensure sanitation. Its strategy is behaviour modification. Since then, then about 3.64 lakh villages, 385 districts and 13 States and 4 Union Territories have also declared themselves OPEN DEFECATION FREE (ODF).

Coverage of rural households with toilets has increased from 39% to 84%. The coverage of rural households with individual household latrines has more than doubled in the last four years. Some of the surveys conducted recently found that now more than 90% of rural households who have access to toilets are using them.

In the urban areas, 100 per cent door to door collection of solid waste has been achieved in 62,436 out of 84,049 wards and 2,618 cities have declared themselves ODF out which 2089 cities have been certified as ODF by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs through third party verification.

2. ATAL INNOVATION MISSION – (AIM) is Government of India’s flagship initiativeto create and promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across the length and breadth of our country.

AIM’s objective is to develop new programmes and policies for fostering innovation in different sectors of the economy, provide platforms and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders, and create an umbrella structure to oversee the innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem of the country.

AIM’s initiatives have played an important contributory role in the advancement of India from a position of 81 in the Global Innovation Index in 2015 to a position of 48 in 2020. AIM has adopted a holistic approach encompassing schools, universities, research institutions, industry, MSME, NGOs, and Ministries, at district, state, and national levels.

3. Implementation and Monitoring Progress on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – SDG INDIA INDEX

In the light of the global SDG indicators endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission, the Ministry of Statistics     and     programme    Implementation (MoSPI) has   developed   an   elaborate   list   of National SDG indicators. NITI Aayog is entrusted with the task of overseeing the implementation of SDGs in the country. A Task Force on SDGs has been constituted by NITI Aayog involving participation of Central Ministries, State governments and think tanks to review the progress on implementation of SDGs.