The National Institution for Transforming India, or NITI Aayog, has released its Three-Year Action Agenda for the years 2017-18 to 2019-20. The Agenda is meant to provide a guide to policy actions by the Centre and state governments over the coming years. As the Agenda points out, it “offers ambitious proposals for policy changes within a relatively short period”. It is far from certain that the NITI Aayog’s wish list for reform will be completely and properly implemented, but there are good reasons why it should be taken seriously.
As with the old-style planning process that was associated with the NITI
