The Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Office, which monitors the progress of long-term policies, is an attached office under

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Correct — D, NITI Aayog. The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) is an attached office of NITI Aayog. It was constituted in September 2015 by merging the erstwhile Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO) and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO). Its mandate is to monitor and evaluate the implementation, outcomes and impact of government programmes and policies — fitting NITI Aayog's role as the government's premier policy think-tank (which replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015).

Why the other options are wrong — (a) The PMO supports the Prime Minister directly; the dedicated programme monitoring-and-evaluation body (DMEO) is attached to NITI Aayog, not the PMO.  (b) The MHA handles internal security, centre-state relations and administration; policy monitoring and evaluation of development programmes is not its function.  (c) The Cabinet Secretariat provides secretarial support to the Cabinet and coordinates among ministries; DMEO is an office of NITI Aayog, not the Cabinet Secretariat.

Concept: NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), set up on 1 January 2015 to replace the Planning Commission, is the Centre's apex public-policy think-tank. Its evaluation wing is the Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO), an attached office created in 2015 by merging the Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO) and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO). DMEO tracks how well government schemes and long-term policies are implemented and what outcomes they deliver.

State PCS 2020 Q138 — Polity & Governance PYQ with Answer

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