The NITI Aayog on December 19,
2018 released ‘Strategy for New India @75’, its comprehensive national Strategy
for New India which defines clear objectives for 2022-23. The Strategy was
released by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
Key
points:-
-With ‘Strategy for New India @
75′, Niti
Aayog aims to accelerate growth to 9-10 percent and make India a USD 5 trillion economy by 2030.
-The development strategy
includes doubling of farmers’ income,
boosting ‘Make in India’, upgrading
the science, technology and innovation ecosystem, and promoting sectors like
fintech and tourism.
-NITI Aayog prescribed reducing
upper age limit to join the civil services to 27 years from the present 32
years for General Category candidates by 2022-23 in a phased manner and also to
have one integrated exam for all civil services.
-It calls for successfully
implementing the Ayushman Bharat
programme including the establishment of 150000 health and wellness centres
and rolling out Pradhan Mantri Jan
Arogya Yojana.
-The document outlines the need
for creating agripreneurs, which implies creation of agro-processing industry
at a much faster pace to enhance farmer participation though agro processing.
-It calls for participation of Private Sector in Indian
Railways. From ownership of locomotives and rolling stocks to modernising
stations, improvement of the railways hinges on private participation.
-It boasts of expanding the
scope of Swachh Bharat Mission to
cover initiatives for landfills, plastic waste and municipal waste and
generating wealth from waste.
-The government will have to
ease the tax compliance burden and eliminate direct interface between taxpayers
and tax officials using technology.
-It suggests better
compensation to banking correspondents, facilitating paperless banking and
introducing financial literacy chapters in school curricula to spur financial
inclusion.
-It recommends identification
of the poorest among the minority communities through the socio-economic caste
census data for proper targeting of various schemes.
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