One liner on Planning Commission

  • Planning commission is a non constitutional body
  • It is a central body for making plan in India
  • A book entitled planned economy for India was published in 1934 by Sir M Vishweshwaraya
  • Indian National Congress constituted a national planning committee in 1938 to discuss the requirement and planning in India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the president of the committee at that time
  • In 1944 a  plan called Bombay plan was presented by 8 Industrialist of Bombay there after in the same year 1944 Gandhian plan by manarangan, in 1945 the People's plan by labour leader, M N Raj and in 1950 the Sarvodaya plan by Mr Jai prakash Narayan were presented
  • Planning Commission constituted on 15th March 1950
  • the first Chairman of Planning Commission was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
  • prime minister of India is the ex-officio chairman of the planning commission there is also a Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission
  • the national development Council was formed on 6th August 1952
  • format of Five Year Plan came in 1951
  • Concept of Planning Commission is derived from Russia USSR
  • It was constituted by Union Cabinet on the proposal of a member of union Parliament
  • planning commission is approved by and NDC 
  • NDC is non statutory body which is built to corporate between state and Planning Commission
  • planning commission is in concurrent list
  • the member of Planning Commission are appointed by government
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