Name and shame non-performing bureaucrats, says NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

Amitabh Kant also targeted regulators for 'making a mess'

NITI Aayog’s CEO Amitabh Kant on Wednesday exhorted that there was no shortage of money in India but service delivery mechanisms were failing the country. Kant came out with a solution to the problem. He said,"Start naming and shaming places that do not work. Tell people that these are districts failing the country. That these states, the political leadership and the administrative bureaucracy is failing us in these states.”  

The NITI Aayog CEO was speaking at the ‘Accelerating Growth & Development in the SDG era’ organised by Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation. Kant’s diatribe wasn’t just restricted to bureaucrats. He