Niti Aayog has plenty to do if only it sets it sails for the future

Aayog could have done plenty is in asking questions about the expanding range of price control

A senior finance ministry official said last week, why has Niti Aayog got into public-private-partnership?  That portfolio had clearly traveled to the finance ministry. The official was referring to the renewed enthusiasm within the Aayog to use the model to offer solutions for sectors like health care. It was also reported earlier that the government might dismantle the finance ministry’s public-private partnership committee and ask Niti Aayog to do the work. This came just as the government scrapped the Foreign Investment Promotion Board. 

Essentially the shifting of committee would have made Niti Aayog one more arm of the central government,