Q.The Planning Commission of India was set up in the year:

This body was created just a few years after Independence, well before the First Five-Year Plan actually began.

Match the year against each option — only one is the year of its own creation, not Independence or any later reform date.

The Planning Commission was set up on 15 March 1950 by a resolution of the Union Cabinet, ahead of the First Five-Year Plan (1951–56).

Option-by-option analysis:

• (a) 1947 — incorrect; this is the year of India's Independence, not the year the Planning Commission was created.
• (b) 1950 — correct; the Planning Commission was established on 15 March 1950.
• (c) 1991 — incorrect; this is the year of India's major economic (LPG) reforms, a separate event.
• (d) 2015 — incorrect; this is the year NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission, not the year the Commission itself was set up.