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.

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

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 ...

2015 decided to do away with the Planning Commission of India and set up the National Institution for Transforming India – the NITI Aayog – as a policy think tank. “An expert advice by the ...

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.