Ministry of Planning (India)

Ministry of Planning
	Emblem of India
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Template:Country data Republic of India
Annual budget	₹339.65 crores ($48 million) (2018-19) including NITI Aayog
Minister responsible	Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India;
Deputy Minister responsible	Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge);
Parent Ministry	Government of India

Ministry of Planning is a ministry in India. The minister responsible is the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. The ministry's institutional capacity is exercised through the central agency: NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India).

NITI Aayog[edit]

On 1 January 2015, a Cabinet resolution was passed to replace the Planning Commission with the newly formed NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). Union Government of India announced the formation of NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015. The first meeting of NITI Aayog was chaired by Narendra Modi on 8 February 2015.

NITI Aayog's mandate is to support the center and the states in transforming India by promoting cooperative federalism by fostering the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach. The Governing Council of NITI, with The Prime Minister as its Chairman, comprises Chief Ministers of all States and Lt. Governors of Union Territories (UTs). In addition, temporary members are selected from leading universities and research institutions. These members include a chief executive officer, four ex-official members, and two part-time members. The agency's Vice Chairman holds a Cabinet Minister equivalent rank.

NITI Aayog primarily provides policy inputs to the highest decision making bodies. Through its monitoring and evaluation division, it monitors all national and state schemes to provide annual review to the Prime Minister and India Budget. It also provides its comments on all major schemes before being approved by the Finance Ministry.

The body is known for pioneering recruitment of ivy-league specialists from across the world through its Work For India initiative. The body's lateral entry is the largest in the country among government bodies with lateral hires account more than half of the core work force. The body's highly successful Young Professional program is being emulated by all central ministries and army.

Ministers of Planning[edit]

Name	Term of office		Party	Prime Minister
Gulzari Lal Nanda (Minister of Planning)	24 September 1951	21 September 1963	Indian National Congress	Jawaharlal Nehru
Bali Ram Bhagat (MoS)	21 September 1963	24 January 1966		Jawaharlal Nehru Lal Bahadur Shastri
Ashok Mehta	24 January 1966	05 September 1967		Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi	05 September 1967	24 April 1971
C. Subramaniam	24 April 1971	22 July 1972
D. P. Dhar	22 July 1972	31 December 1974
Indira Gandhi	02 January 1975	24 March 1977
N. D. Tiwari	08 June 1980	08 August 1981		Indira Gandhi
S. B. Chavan	08 August 1981	19 July 1984
Prakash Chandra Sethi	19 July 1984	31 October 1984
P. V. Narasimha Rao (MoS, Independent Charge)	04 November 1984	14 January 1985		Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
Rajiv Gandhi	14 January 1985	25 July 1987		Rajiv Gandhi
P. Shiv Shankar (Minister of Planning and Programme Implementation)	25 July 1987	25 June 1988
Madhavsinh Solanki	25 June 1988	02 December 1989
Chandra Shekhar	10 November 1990	21 June 1991	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar
Hansraj Bhardwaj (MoS, Independent Charge)	21 June 1991	02 July 1992	Indian National Congress	P. V. Narasimha Rao
Sukh Ram (MoS, Independent Charge)	02 July 1992	18 January 1993
Giridhar Gamang (MoS, Independent Charge)	18 January 1993	05 September 1995
Balram Singh Yadav (MoS, Independent Charge)	15 September 1995	16 May 1996
Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	01 June 1996	Bharatiya Janata Party	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
H. D. Deve Gowda	01 June 1996	29 June 1996	Janata Dal (United Front)	H. D. Deve Gowda
Yoginder K Alagh (MoS, Independent Charge)	29 June 1996	09 June 1997	Independent (United Front)	H. D. Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral
I. K. Gujral	09 June 1997	18 March 1998	Janata Dal (United Front)	I. K. Gujral
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Minister of Planning 13 October 1999 onwards)	18 March 1998	22 May 2004	Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Manmohan Singh	22 May 2004	26 May 2014	Indian National Congress (United Progressive Alliance)	Manmohan Singh
Rao Inderjit Singh (MoS, Independent Charge)	26 May 2014		Bharatiya Janata Party (National Democratic Alliance)	Narendra Modi

References[edit]

↑ "NITI Aayog Budget Allocation Increased by More than 20%". Press Information Bureau. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

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[1] "NITI Aayog Budget Allocation Increased by More than 20%". Press Information Bureau. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 16 February 2020.

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