India, March 21 -- A parliamentary committee has asked NITI Aayog to be more precise and accurate in assessment of their projected expenditure and targets and criticised the government policy think tanks for "amateur planning".

The parliamentary standing committee on finance, headed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Bhartruhari Mahtab, in its report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, asked the NITI Aayog to be more fiscally prudent in allocating and utilising the available resources in future.

"The scrutiny of estimates, allocations, and use of budget grants reveals a trend of amateur planning where the Ministry of Planning (NITI Aayog) has not been able to apply adequate foresight in planning and projecting their probable exp...