Development Support Services for States and Union Territories

NITI Aayog has been implementing a structured initiative, ‘Development Support Services for States (DSSS) for Infrastructure Projects’, with the vision to achieve transformational and sustained delivery of infrastructure projects.

Objective

• Establish Centre-State partnership model for cooperation
• Reimagine and transform delivery of infrastructure projects
• Establish PPPs as governance tools supporting larger development agenda
• Address key structural issues that sates face in conceiving, structuring and implementing infrastructure projects
• Build institutional and organisational capacities of States and State-level institutions to conceive, conceptualise, structure and implement infrastructure projects

Phases

• Phase I of the initiative was completed in FY 2018, wherein a demonstrable project shelf comprising 10 projects was selected from among 400 projects.
• During 2018–19, Phase II of the initiative was completed for the shortlisted projects.
• Most projects under the initiative have entered Phase III, in which NITI Aayog, with the support of external consultants, assists the States in transaction structuring, strategy and bid process management.

Significance

It will promote cooperative federalism and help in infrastructure development in the states, improve economies of scale of these projects. It will also increase employment opportunities.