Functions of NITI Aayog: 

1. Cooperative and Competitive Federalism: To enable the States to have active participation in the formulation of national policy. 

2. Shared National Agenda: To evolve a shared vision of national development priorities and strategies with the active involvement of States. 

3. Decentralized Planning: To restructure the planning process into a bottom-up model. 

4. Vision and Scenario Planning: To design medium and long-term strategic frameworks towards India’s future. 

5. Network of Expertise: To mainstream external ideas and expertise into government policies and programmes through a collective participation. 

6. Harmonization: To facilitate harmonization of actions across different layers of government, especially when involving cross-cutting and overlapping issues across multiple sectors; thro communication, coordination, collaboration and convergence amongst all the stakeholders. 

7. Conflict Resolution: To provide platform for mutual consensus to inter-sectoral, inter¬departmental, inter-state as well as centre-state issues for all speedy execution of the government programmes. 

8. Coordinating Interface with the World: It will act nodal point to harness global expertise and resources coming from International organizations for India’s developmental process. 

9. Internal Consultancy: It provides internal consultancy to Central and State governments on policy and programmes. 

10. Capacity Building: It enables to provide capacity building and technology up-gradation across government, benchmarking with latest global trends and providing managerial and technical know-how. 

11. Monitoring and Evaluation: It will monitor the implementation of policies and progammes and evaluate the impacts.