NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

NITI Aayog proposes to bring Digital Bank

Government think-tank Niti Aayog proposed setting up of full-stack 'digital banks', which would principally rely on the internet and other proximate channels to offer their services and not physical branches, to mitigate the financial deepening challenges being faced in the country

Nov 25, 2021, 09:36 AM IST

India consumes most mobile data per month in world: NITI Aayog

India is now world's number one mobile data consuming country. 

Dec 22, 2017, 16:07 PM IST

Not government's business to tell tourists what to eat or drink: NITI Aayog CEO

In an address to the World Economic Forum, Kant also questioned how can tourists visiting India chill out if they are barred from making their eating and drinking choices.

Oct 06, 2017, 20:16 PM IST

GST to make India a simpler, more revenue generating economy

GST will be rolled out nation-wide from Friday midnight, overhauling India's convoluted indirect taxation system and unifying the over USD 2 trillion economy with 1.3 billion people into a single market.

Jun 30, 2017, 18:07 PM IST

'India passing through biggest technological revolution'

Kant enumerated the various initiatives of the government to change the 19th century mindsets and move into the 21st century through vast and transformative decisions.

May 11, 2017, 18:47 PM IST