Purpose:
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
In carrying out the above functions, NITI Aayog will be guided by an overall vision of development
which is inclusive, equitable and sustainable. A strategy of empowerment built on human dignity
and national self-respect, which lives up to Swami Vivekananda’s idea of our duty to encourage
everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea”. Amodel of development which is
loZnsf’kd
(all round),
loZLi’khZ
(all pervasive),
loZlekos’kd
(all inclusive) and
lokaZxh
(holistic):
Antyodaya:
Prioritize service and uplift of the poor, marginalized and downtrodden, as
enunciated in Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay’s idea of
‘Antyodaya’
. Development is incomplete
and meaningless, if it does not reach the farthest individual. In the centuries old words of
Tiruvalluvar, the sage-poet, nothing is more dreadfully painful than poverty”.
Inclusion:
Empower vulnerable and marginalized sections, redressing identity-based
inequalities of all kinds gender, region, religion, caste or class. As Sankar Dev wrote decades
ago:
"to see every being as equivalent to one’s own soul is the supreme means (of attaining
deliverance)"
. Weaker sections must be enabled to be masters of their own fate, having equal
influence over the choices the nation makes.
Village:
Integrate our villages into the development process, to draw on the vitality and energy
of the bedrock of our ethos, culture and sustenance.
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