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India’s Planning Landscape: From Centralized to Decentralized Planning

Before the demise of planning commission, India followed a soviet model of five year plans and these plans...

📅 December 11, 2015

History of Planning in India

First of all the idea of planned economy was crystallized in 1930s when our national leaders came under...

📅 December 11, 2015

Noted labour economist T.S. Papola passes away

Noted labour economist Dr. T.S. Papola passed away in New Delhi. He was 74. He had served as...

📅 November 24, 2015

Eminent Economist Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passes away

Eminent economist, policy advisor and noted academic Mrinal Datta Chaudhuri passed away in Pune, Maharashtra 19 May 2015....

📅 May 21, 2015

Eminent political scientist Rajni Kothari passes away

Eminent political scientist, scholar and former Planning Commission member Rajni Kothari passed away in New Delhi. He was 86....

📅 January 20, 2015

Niti Aayog: less government, more governance?

Government of India has finally gone ahead with its approach of less government, more governance.  The new body...

📅 January 13, 2015

Arvind Panagariya takes charge as Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog

Eminent Economist Arvind Panagariya has taken charge as first Vice-Chairman of the newly-created National Institution for Transforming India (NITI)...

📅 January 13, 2015

Sindhushree Khullar appointed as Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog

Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has appointed senior bureaucrat Sindhushree Khullar as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of...

📅 January 10, 2015

​Eminent Economist Arvind Panagariya appointed as NITI Aayog vice-chairman

Eminent free-market economist Arvind Panagariya has been appointed as Vice-chairman of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog....

📅 January 5, 2015

Union Government renames Planning Commission as 'Neeti Ayog'

Union government has renamed Planning commission as National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog. The renaming of the...

📅 January 1, 2015