The government has decided to abolish the Planning Commission, a 64-year-old apex policy making body, and replace it with a new institution to address the emerging economic needs and strengthen ...

NEW DELHI: The Planning Commission has dissolved all the 19 consultative ... organisations and foreign firms operating in India has been subject to some discussion," the statement said referring ...

Planning Commission was established by an executive decision of Government of India in 1950 in accordance with article 39 of the constitution which is a part of directive principles of state policy.

The transition from the Planning Commission to the Niti Aayog reflects the completion ... of the annual “drain” of surplus from “British India” to the home country (a figure later used by Paul Baran ...

There are various estimates on the exact number of poor in India, and the counts have been mired in controversy. This week the Planning Commission said 29.8% of India's 1.21 billion people live ...

Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint (Ramesh Pathania/Mint ) New Delhi: Poverty in India declined to a record 22% in 2011-12, the Planning Commission disclosed on Tuesday. add_main_imageOver the last ...

On the first day of the New Year, the Modi Government set up NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) in place of the Planning Commission. The Prime Minister will head the new ...

He announced that India’s Planning Commission, the body instituted to conceptualize the grand overarching strategy of Indian economic policy in 1950 by India’s first Prime Minister ...

The National Institutional for Transforming India (Niti) Aayog will be a lean body unlike its predecessor, the Planning Commission, which had over 1,100 employees. The National Institutional for ...