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.

And the man in charge of the process is Arun Maira, the former chairman of global consulting firm Boston Consulting Group in India and now a member of the Commission. The Planning Commission's ...

When the 12 th five-year plan was in progress, before it could be completed, in 2014 the Planning Commission was dissolved hurriedly and the process of preparing five-year plans to guide the ...

The Planning Commission and the planning processes can make a very important contribution to this. This is a time of re-thinking and re-imagining economic development in keeping with the needs ...

Surely this vestige of Nehruvian India would not survive. Surprising no one, the abolition of the Planning Commission was announced in Modi’s first address from Red Fort on Independence Day.

Former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman MR Srinivasan passed away at the age of 95 on Tuesday. The Padma Vibhusan recipient had played a key role in the development of India's nuclear power programme ...

He served as the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Government of India from 2004 to 2014. A key figure in India’s economic reforms from the early 1980s onwards, he has held several ...

The Narendra Modi government announced the dissolution of the Planning Commission and replaced it by a think-tank called the National Institution for Transforming India”. The next government of Lanka ...

Government bodies like the Economic Adviser and the Planning Commission of India regulalry release statistics on economic development. External bodies, like the World Bank and Asian Development ...