The Planning Commission, established in March 1950 under Jawaharlal Nehru, was restructured as NITI Aayog on January 1, 2015, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, aiming to improve India's economic policies and resource utilization. NITI Aayog serves as a think-tank with advisory functions, unlike the Planning Commission that had more power in fund allocation. Major initiatives include the Swachh Bharat Mission and the Smart City Mission, along with criticism from opposition parties regarding the efficacy of the change in structure.

2. PLANNING COMMISSION
• Setup – March 1950
• Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Chairman of the Planning
Commission.
• Authority
• Promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people , by
-Five Year Plan
1. Efficient use of Resources
2. Increasing production
3. Employment Opportunities

3. RENAMING OF PLANNING COMMISSION
• New Avatar as ‘NITI AAYOG’.
• ‘One Size fits all approach’
• “No futuristic vision in the post-reform period”.
• Focus on Indian Economy

4. ABOUT
• NITI Aayog is a Government of India policy think-tank.
• The acronym ‘NITI’ stands for National Institution for
Transforming India.
• ‘Aayog’ is the Hindi word for ‘commission’.
• Established by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Formation – 1st January 2015,
First meeting - 8th February 2015.

5. MEMBERS
• Chairperson: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Ceo: Sindhushree Khullar Ias
• Vice Chairperson: Arvind Panagariya
• Ex-officio Members: Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Suresh
Prabhu And Radha Mohan Singh
• Special Invitees: Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Zubin
Irani And Thawarchand Gehlot
• Full-time Members: Bibek Debroy & V. K. Saraswat
• Governing Council: All Chief Ministers And Lieutenant
Governors Of States And Union Territories

6. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NITI
AAYOG & PLANNING COMMISION
NITI AAYOG
To be an advisory body, or a
think-tank. The powers to
allocate funds might be vested in
the finance ministry
The number of full-time
members could be fewer than
Planning Commission
State governments are expected
to play a more significant role
than they did in the Planning
Commission
To be known at the CEO and to
be appointed by the prime
minister
PLANNING
COMMISSION
Enjoyed the powers to allocate
funds to ministries and state
governments
The last Commission had eight
full-time members
States' role was limited to the
National Development Council
and annual interaction during
Plan meetings
Secretaries or member
secretaries were appointment
through the usual process
Financial
Clout
Full-time
members
States’ Role
Member
Secretary

7. OBJECTIVES
• Formulation of plans.
• National security Interest.
• Social Stability.
• To focus on technology upgradation and capacity building
• To monitor the implementation of programmes and initiatives.
• Policy support
• Safeguarding of our environmental and ecological assets.

8. INITIATIVES
• AADHAR ( Unique Identification Authority of India )
• NILERD ( National Institute of Labour Economics Research and
Development )
• India Energy Security Scenarios.
• Swatchh Bharat Mission.
• Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund.
• Intereact with Hon’ble PM.
• India Smart City Mission

9. UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION
AUTHORITY OF INDIA
• 12 Digit individual identification number
• Issued by UIDAI on behalf of Government of India
• Proof of Identity and Address
• Biometric and Demographic information
• Replaces all other ID’s

10. NILERD
( Formerly Institute of Applied
Manpower Research )
• Established as an autonomous institute in 1962.
• Research
• Data Collection
• Education and Training in Human Resource Development and Human
Capital Planning

11. INDIA ENERGY SECURITY
SCENARIOS 2047
• Energy Scenario building tool.
• Develop energy pathways leading up to the year 2047.
• Suggest measures to shift energy patterns .
• Reduced Import dependency for India.
• Web Tool.

12. SWACHH BHARAT MISSION
• National Campaign by Government of India.
• Officially Launched on 2 October 2014.
• Cleanliness drive
• Participation from 3 Million Government employees , school and college
students .
• 9 selected Public figures.

13. • Established by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru then in 1948 .
• To assist displaced person from Pakistan.
• Now utilized to render immediate relief to families of those killed in natural
calamities like Floods, Earthquakes, Tsunamis etc.
• To victims of major accidents and riots.
• Entirely Public Contribution.
• No Budgetary support .
• Corpus fund invested with banks.

14. SMART CITY MISSION
• Basic Infrastructure
• ‘Smart’ solutions to make infrastructure and services better.
• Area based development.
• Clean & Sustainable environment.
• Retrofitting, Redevelopment & Greenfield.

17. CRITICISM
Congress :
"The real issue is do you (the government) have a substantive
meaningful programme to reform the Planning Commission?". "If
you (the BJP government) simply want to abolish it (the
commission), because it is something which (Jawaharlal) Nehru
created for this country and you don't like Nehru or simply because
it was run by the Congress for 60 years and you don't like the
Congress, that is pitiable," he said.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist said a mere change in the
name would not yield the desired results. "Mere changing this
nomenclature, and this sort of gimmickry is not going to serve the
purpose. Let us wait and see what the government is eventually
planning," CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said.