NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar has appreciated Andhra Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu for implementation of Real Time Governance. On Thursday, he visited RTG Centre with his team established in State Secretariat, Amaravati. "I fell, I am in some foreign country, but not India. I am amazed with RTG. We certainly recommend all other States to follow RTG as AP do", he said.
The NITI Aayog and the Andhra Pradesh Government have entered into an MoU for development of monitoring mechanism, including creation of dashboard and collection of data for improving the performance of 115 most aspirational districts in the country.
The objective is to design, develop and deploy an indicator based digital system for implementation progress and performance monitoring of NITI Aayog's transformation of most aspirational districts of India, train the district-level officers on the use and servicing of the digital monitoring system and to provide hosting and post deployment system maintenance.
In its existence, the Andhra Pradesh State Development Planning Society (APSDPS) developed a Real Time Outcome Monitoring System (ROMS) to monitor progress and performance of the key indicators from its outcome budget, vision 2029 and SDG 2020 targets. Keeping in mind, the Prime Minister's vision to transform the country as whole forms a basis for NITI Aayog collaborating with Vision Management Unit, APSDPSfor developing a similar digital structure for monitoring its programmes and schemes in the areas of poverty, health, nutrition, education, agriculture, income opportunities, basic infrastructure, etc.
Formalizing the collaboration, an MoU was signed by Ashok Jain, Advisor, NITI Aayog and Sanjay Gupta, Secretary, Planning Department at the District Collectors' Conference chaired by the Chief Minister.
On the first day of the Collectors' Conference, the Chief Minister welcomed the Vice Chairman of Niti Aayog, Dr. Rajiv Kumar.
The Chief Minister unveiled the brochure of Mission Antodaya and launched the website www.ncbn.in at the beginning of the conference. He introduced Vice Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar as the best representative of Niti Aayog. "He has subject expertise, extensive knowledge, and the keenness to serve the nation", he said.
He urged Kumar to continue giving them recommendations of the best practices from all over the world, and promised that Andhra Pradesh will implement them, and deliver results.
"As the Prime Minister rightly said, Niti Aayog is a dynamic platform that coordinates the different states, and encourage a competitive spirit between the states", said Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar appreciated the achievements of Andhra Pradesh, and said that his first visit to Vijayawada 'truly impressed him'. He added that the growth of the agriculture sector is 'unbelievable'. In his keynote address, he presented the detailed plan, New India 2022, and its main objectives. "Under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we will work towards making India 'Swachh, Swashta, Shikshit, Sampann, Saksham and Surakshit' by 2022", he said. "By 2047, India must be Sarvashreshta Bharat, Jagatguru Bharat, and one of the top 3 nations of the world."
He explained that this means that India will be poverty-free, terrorism-free, squalor-free, casteism-free, corruption-free and communalism-free by 2022.
He also spoke about the key aspects of implantation being housing, energy, financial inclusion, education and health and said that Niti Aayog is adopting decentralized and bottom-up strategy mechanisms. He said that all states must primarily focus on the development of agriculture and employment generation, and Andhra Pradesh should continue leading the way with agro-product, horticulture and diverse-crop approach.