The Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog in the year: (a) 1991 (b) 2005 (c) 2015 (d) 2020

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Q. The Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog in the year:

(a) 1991

(b) 2005

(d) 2020

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The Planning Commission, set up in 1950, was formally replaced by NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) in January 2015, as part of a shift toward a bottom-up, think-tank-style planning body built on cooperative and competitive federalism.

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(a) 1991 — incorrect; this is the year of the New Economic Policy/LPG reforms, a different (though related) milestone. …

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NITI Aayog's creation (with its 'Minimum Government, Maximum Governance' theme) was a direct response to criticism of the Planning Commission's top-down approach, so R correctly explains A.

Assertion (A) is TRUE: in 2015, the Planning Commission was replaced by NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), which adopted the theme 'Minimum Government, Maximum Governance', signalling a shift towards a less centralised, more facilitative role for the central government.

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The Prime Minister of India is the ex-officio Chairperson of NITI Aayog; Narendra Modi, as the Prime Minister when NITI Aayog was constituted on 1 January 2015, was its first Chairperson.

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