Ministry of Planning (India)

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-officio 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.

Key

• MoS (I/C) – Minister of State (Independent Charge)
• MoS – Minister of State

No.	Portrait		Minister (Birth-Death) Constituency	Term of office			Political party	Ministry	Prime Minister
				From	To	Period
Minister of Planning
1			Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) Unelected	24 September 1951	13 May 1952	232 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru I	Jawaharlal Nehru
Minister of Planning and River Valley Schemes
(1)			Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	13 May 1952	6 June 1952	24 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru II	Jawaharlal Nehru
Minister of Planning
(1)			Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) MP for Sabarkantha	6 June 1952	17 April 1957	11 years, 107 days	Indian National Congress	Nehru II	Jawaharlal Nehru
				17 April 1957	10 April 1962			Nehru III
				10 April 1962	21 September 1963			Nehru IV
2			Bali Ram Bhagat (1922–2011) MP for Arrah (MoS)	21 September 1963	27 May 1964	2 years, 125 days
				27 May 1964	9 June 1964			Nanda I	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
				9 June 1964	11 January 1966			Shastri	Lal Bahadur Shastri
				11 January 1966	24 January 1966			Nanda II	Gulzarilal Nanda (acting)
3			Asoka Mehta (1911–1984) Rajya Sabha MP for Maharashtra	24 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 224 days		Indira I	Indira Gandhi
				13 March 1967	5 September 1967
–			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Raebareli (Prime Minister)	5 September 1967	18 March 1971	3 years, 231 days
				18 March 1971	24 April 1971			Indira II
4			Chidambaram Subramaniam (1910–2000) MP for Palani	24 April 1971	22 July 1972	1 year, 89 days
5			Durga Prasad Dhar (1918–1975) MP for Jammu and Kashmir	23 July 1972	31 December 1974	2 years, 161 days
–			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Raebareli (Prime Minister)	2 January 1975	24 March 1977	2 years, 81 days
–			Morarji Desai (1896–1995) MP for Surat (Prime Minister)	24 March 1977	28 July 1979	2 years, 126 days	Janata Party	Desai	Morarji Desai
–			Charan Singh (1902–1987) MP for Baghpat (Prime Minister)	28 July 1979	14 January 1980	170 days	Janata Party (Secular)	Charan Singh	Charan Singh
–			Indira Gandhi (1917–1984) MP for Medak (Prime Minister)	14 January 1980	8 June 1980	146 days	Indian National Congress	Indira III	Indira Gandhi
6			N. D. Tiwari (1925–2018) MP for Nainital	8 June 1980	8 September 1981	1 year, 92 days
7			Shankarrao Chavan (1920–2004) MP for Nanded	8 September 1981	19 July 1984	2 years, 315 days
8			Prakash Chandra Sethi (1919–1996) MP for Indore	19 July 1984	31 October 1984	104 days
9			P. V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004) MP for Hanamkonda (until 1984) MP for Ramtek (from 1984)	4 November 1984	31 December 1984	71 days		Rajiv I	Rajiv Gandhi
				31 December 1984	14 January 1985			Rajiv II
–			Rajiv Gandhi (1944–1991) MP for Amethi (Prime Minister)	14 January 1985	25 July 1987	2 years, 192 days
10			P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	25 July 1987	14 February 1988	204 days
Minister of Planning and Programme Implementation
(10)			P. Shiv Shankar (1929–2017) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	14 February 1988	25 June 1988	132 days	Indian National Congress	Rajiv II	Rajiv Gandhi
11			Madhavsinh Solanki (1927–2021) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat	25 June 1988	2 December 1989	1 year, 160 days
–			V. P. Singh (1931–2008) MP for Fatehpur (Prime Minister)	2 December 1989	10 November 1990	343 days	Janata Dal	Vishwanath	V. P. Singh
–			Chandra Shekhar (1927–2007) MP for Ballia (Prime Minister)	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)	Chandra Shekhar	Chandra Shekhar
12			H. R. Bhardwaj (1939–2020) Rajya Sabha MP for Madhya Pradesh (MoS, I/C)	21 June 1991	2 July 1992	1 year, 11 days	Indian National Congress	Rao	P. V. Narasimha Rao
13			Sukh Ram (1927–2022) MP for Mandi (MoS, I/C)	2 July 1992	18 January 1993	200 days
14			Giridhar Gamang (born 1943) MP for Koraput (MoS, I/C)	18 January 1993	15 September 1995	2 years, 240 days
15			Balram Singh Yadav (1939–2005) Rajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh (MoS, I/C)	15 September 1995	16 May 1996	244 days
–			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister)	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee I	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
–			H. D. Deve Gowda (born 1933) Unelected (Prime Minister)	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Janata Dal	Deve Gowda	H. D. Deve Gowda
16			Yoginder K Alagh (1939–2022) Rajya Sabha MP for Gujarat (MoS, I/C)	29 June 1996	21 April 1997	345 days
				21 April 1997	9 June 1997			Gujral	Inder Kumar Gujral
–			Inder Kumar Gujral (1919–2012) Rajya Sabha MP for Bihar (Prime Minister)	9 June 1997	19 March 1998	283 days
–			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister)	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee II	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Minister of Planning
–			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924–2018) MP for Lucknow (Prime Minister)	13 October 1999	22 May 2004	4 years, 222 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Vajpayee III	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
–			Manmohan Singh (born 1932) Rajya Sabha MP for Assam (Prime Minister)	22 May 2004	22 May 2009	10 years, 4 days	Indian National Congress	Manmohan I	Manmohan Singh
				23 May 2009	26 May 2014			Manmohan II
17			Rao Inderjit Singh (born 1951) MP for Gurgaon (MoS, I/C)	26 May 2014	30 May 2019	10 years, 8 days	Bharatiya Janata Party	Modi I	Narendra Modi
				31 May 2019	Incumbent			Modi II