As lakhs of crores of rupees earmarked annually towards central Plan Expenditure, NITI Aayog will actively monitor and evaluate implementation of Government programmes and initiatives, Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh said here on Monday.
"With central Plan Expenditure of the order of Rs5.75 lakh crore was being channelised per year for development, it was absolutely necessary that there is concurrent, comprehensive, credible and reliable evaluation.
"A major task before the NITI Aayog is to actively monitor and evaluate implementation of programmes and initiatives," Minister of State for Planning Rao Inderjit Singh said while inaugurating 5-day's EvalWeek. The event mainly focuses on strategies to spread awareness about and use of evaluation as a tool for enhancing result from policies and programmes of good governance.
It is being jointly organised by National Institute for labour Economics Research and Development (NIlRD) and Programme Evaluation Organisation of the NITI Aayog.Singh stressed for a time-bound, ethical and credible evaluations based on ground-level evidence and feedback conducted by independent organisations without any conflict of interest."In spite of the long history of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in the country, somehow, a national evaluation policy had not come into existence.