Volume : 3, Issue : 1, January - 2014

Rural Development Programmes in India: A Study in the context of Five Year Plans

Dr. Badal Sarkar

Abstract :

The Planning Commission is formulated for the implementation of the five year plans of the Government of India. Nehru visited Soviet Russia in 1927. He was impressed by the Five Year Plans of Russia. In 1938, he proposed to adopt the Five Year Plans in India. On the recommendations of the Advisory Planning Board constituted in 1946, under the Chairmanship of K. C. Neogi, the Planning Commission was established in March 1950 by an executive resolution of the Government of India. Thus, the Planning Commission is neither a constitutional body nor a statutory body. In other words, it is a non-constitutional or extra-constitutional body. The Deputy Chairman of the Commission is responsible for the formulation and submission of the draft Five-Year Plan to the Central Cabinet.