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 ...

Drawing on his decades-long experience at the intersection of politics and economics, he now unpacks what the new phase of ...

Montek Singh Ahluwalia's first concern focused on non-transparent subsidisation of Chinese exports that could hurt Indian ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tamil Nadu sees a shift from agriculture to non-farm sectors, with a focus on automotive future and knowledge economy.

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.

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 ...