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NITI Aayog releases data centre evaluation framework for States
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NITI Aayog now gives States a data centre scorecard: the think-tank role GS-III infrastructure answers need
NITI Aayog has released a Data Centre Evaluation Framework to help States plan the sustainable growth of data centres. NITI Aayog, which replaced the Planning Commission in 2015, acts as the Government of India's policy think tank.
Why it matters: asked in UPSC 2015; factual, Prelims-type
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NITI Aayog has released a Data Centre Evaluation Framework to help States plan the sustainable growth of data centres.
NITI Aayog, which replaced the Planning Commission in 2015, acts as the Government of India's policy think tank.
Sources: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
Key facts
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- NITI Aayog has released a Data Centre Evaluation Framework to help States plan sustainable growth of data centres.
- NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission in 2015.
- NITI Aayog is the Government of India's policy think tank.
- The framework is aimed at States, which makes it a cooperative-federalism tool rather than a binding rule.
Prelims · Mains
How the exam will ask it
Prelims
- NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission in 2015 and functions as the Government of India's policy think tank.
- NITI Aayog's Data Centre Evaluation Framework is meant to help States plan the sustainable growth of data centres.
- NITI Aayog is an advisory body and does not itself allocate plan funds in the way the Planning Commission did.
Mains
GS-III (Infrastructure) and GS-II (Governance): data centres underpin digital services, but they demand heavy power, land and water. A common evaluation framework lets States compare sites on sustainability and plan capacity, though NITI Aayog's role is advisory, so the way forward lies in State adoption, clean-energy linkage and efficiency norms.
PYQ connection
A question UPSC has already asked on this
The Government of India has established NITI Aayog to replace the
- Human Rights Commission
- Finance Commission
- Law Commission
- Planning Commission
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Answer: D
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The Wholesale Price Index in India is compiled and published by the:
- National Statistical Office
- Reserve Bank of India
- NITI Aayog
- Office of the Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
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Answer: D — The Office of the Economic Adviser in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade compiles the WPI. The National Statistical Office compiles the Consumer Price Index.
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