Ministry of Planning (India)

Ministry of Planning

Emblem of India
Ministry overview
Jurisdiction	Republic of India
Annual budget	₹339.65 crores ($48 million) (2018-19) including NITI Aayog
Minister responsible	Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
Deputy Minister responsible	Rao Inderjit Singh, Minister of State (Independent Charge)
Parent Ministry	Government of India

Ministry of Planning is a ministry in India. The minister responsible is the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. The ministry's institutional capacity is exercised through the central agency: NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India).

NITI Aayog

On 1 January 2015, a Cabinet resolution was passed to replace the Planning Commission with the newly formed NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). Union Government of India announced the formation of NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015. The first meeting of NITI Aayog was chaired by Narendra Modi on 8 February 2015.

NITI Aayog's mandate is to support the center and the states in transforming India by promoting cooperative federalism by fostering the involvement of State Governments of India in the economic policy-making process using a bottom-up approach. The Governing Council of NITI, with The Prime Minister as its Chairman, comprises Chief Ministers of all States and Lt. Governors of Union Territories (UTs). In addition, temporary members are selected from leading universities and research institutions. These members include a chief executive officer, four ex-official members, and two part-time members. The agency's Vice Chairman holds a Cabinet Minister equivalent rank.

NITI Aayog primarily provides policy inputs to the highest decision making bodies. Through its monitoring and evaluation division, it monitors all national and state schemes to provide annual review to the Prime Minister and India Budget. It also provides its comments on all major schemes before being approved by the Finance Ministry.

The body is known for pioneering recruitment of ivy-league specialists from across the world through its Work For India initiative. The body's lateral entry is the largest in the country among government bodies with lateral hires account more than half of the core work force. The body's highly successful Young Professional program is being emulated by all central ministries and army.

Ministers of Planning

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Prime Minister	Party
1		Gulzari Lal Nanda	24 September 1951	21 September 1963	Jawaharlal Nehru	Indian National Congress
2		Bali Ram Bhagat	21 September 1963	24 January 1966	Nehru Shastri
3		Ashok Mehta	24 January 1966	5 September 1967	Indira Gandhi
4		Indira Gandhi	5 September 1967	24 April 1971
5		Chidambaram Subramaniam	24 April 1971	22 July 1972
6		Durga Prasad Dhar	23 July 1972	31 December 1974
4		Indira Gandhi	2 January 1975	24 March 1977
7		N. D. Tiwari	8 June 1980	8 August 1981
8		Shankarrao Chavan	8 August 1981	19 July 1984	Indira Gandhi
9		Prakash Chandra Sethi	19 July 1984	31 October 1984
10		P. V. Narasimha Rao	4 November 1984	14 January 1985	Indira Rajiv
11		Rajiv Gandhi	14 January 1985	25 July 1987	Rajiv Gandhi
12		P. Shiv Shankar	25 July 1987	25 June 1988
13		Madhavsinh Solanki	25 June 1988	02 December 1989
14		Chandra Shekhar	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
15		Hansraj Bhardwaj (Independent Charge)	21 June 1991	02 July 1992	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
16		Sukh Ram (Independent Charge)	02 July 1992	17 January 1993
17		Giridhar Gamang (Independent Charge)	17 January 1993	5 September 1995
18		Balram Singh Yadav (Independent Charge)	15 September 1995	16 May 1996
19		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
20		H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
21		Yoginder K Alagh (Independent Charge)	29 June 1996	9 June 1997	Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral	Independent
22		I. K. Gujral	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	I. K. Gujral	Janata Dal
19		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	19 March 1998	22 May 2004	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
23		Manmohan Singh	22 May 2004	26 May 2014	Manmohan Singh	Indian National Congress
24		Rao Inderjit Singh (Independent Charge)	26 May 2014	Incumbent	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party