NITI Aayog partners with 6 states to transform Health & Education sectors 09 August 2017 Current Affairs: The NITI (National Institution for Transforming India) Aayog announced a partnership with three states each to radically transform their Health and Education sectors under its Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital (SATH) initiative. The shortlisted states for transforming their health sector are Uttar Pradesh, Assam, and Karnataka. Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Odisha were selected. NITI Aayog is working to improve cooperative federalism by ranking states through health, water, education, and agricultural indices.