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Table 2.

Primary data used to analyse the governmentality stages

Governmentality stages	Data used (excluding websites)
India’s commitment to the SDGs
Talk
Commitment to SDGs – Convergence, Collaboration, Competition	NITI Aayog (2018b) and Patel (2022) See also Interviews and their shared material
Includes ongoing VNRs and reports	Centre for Social and Behaviour Chage, and NITI Aayog (2022), NITI Aayog (2017, 2020) and NITI Aayog and United Nations (2018, 2019)
Action
Establish NITI Aayog	Patnaik (2015)
Aspirational Districts as an example of rationales and technologies
Talk
112 Aspirational Districts selected. Talk shows they need ‘development’ to raise base of politically aligned districts	Centre for Social and Behaviour Chage and NITI Aayog (2022) and NITI Aayog (2020, 2021)
Action
Technologies include: 4 KPIs, themes, Champions of Change, Dashboards	NITI Aayog (2018a), NITI Aayog and United Nations (2018, 2019, 2020) and NITI Aayog and United Nations Development Program (2024)
Holding Policy Entrepreneur to account
Critique and support through talk and actions	See interviews (Table 1) and their shared material, also Centre for Social and Behaviour Change and NITI Aayog (2022), Confederation of Indian Industry (2018), Development Alternatives (2016), National Coalition for Education (2019), Public Accounts Committee (2021) and Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (2017, 2019)

Governmentality stages	Data used (excluding websites)
India’s commitment to the SDGs
Talk
Commitment to SDGs – Convergence, Collaboration, Competition	NITI Aayog (2018b) and Patel (2022) See also Interviews and their shared material
Includes ongoing VNRs and reports	Centre for Social and Behaviour Chage, and NITI Aayog (2022), NITI Aayog (2017, 2020) and NITI Aayog and United Nations (2018, 2019)
Action
Establish NITI Aayog	Patnaik (2015)
Aspirational Districts as an example of rationales and technologies
Talk
112 Aspirational Districts selected. Talk shows they need ‘development’ to raise base of politically aligned districts	Centre for Social and Behaviour Chage and NITI Aayog (2022) and NITI Aayog (2020, 2021)
Action
Technologies include: 4 KPIs, themes, Champions of Change, Dashboards	NITI Aayog (2018a), NITI Aayog and United Nations (2018, 2019, 2020) and NITI Aayog and United Nations Development Program (2024)
Holding Policy Entrepreneur to account
Critique and support through talk and actions	See interviews (Table 1) and their shared material, also Centre for Social and Behaviour Change and NITI Aayog (2022), Confederation of Indian Industry (2018), Development Alternatives (2016), National Coalition for Education (2019), Public Accounts Committee (2021) and Wada Na Todo Abhiyan (2017, 2019)

Source(s): Table by authors