Old wine in new bottle

Niti Aayog's 'New India' document lacks fresh ideas

The National Institution for Transforming India (Niti) Aayog on Wednesday released the “Strategy for New India @ 75”, a document that lays out the roadmap for policymaking in India over the next three years. The purpose of sharing it, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his foreword, is to “encourage discussion and debate, and initiate feedback for further refining our policy approach.” To that extent, the strategy paper largely builds on the language of the National Democratic Alliance government over the past four years. The document states that India is ‘currently putting in place a “development state” guided by