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The legacy of the Planning Commission still has a bearing on India’s development policies. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 15 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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The Planning Commission (15 March 1950) carried Jawaharlal Nehru's Fabian-socialist belief that development must be consciously directed by the state. It ran twelve Five-Year Plans. When it was replaced by NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015, the government's case was that a body built for a command-and-control economy had no place in a market one.…

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