Eight eminent personalities have appealed to people to "introspect and audit" the working of the Constitution.
Columbia University, where Panagariya teaches Indian political economy, refused to give any further extension.
Poverty in rural areas declined at a faster pace than in urban cities between 2004-05 and 2009-10, according to the Planning Commission estimates released on Monday.
The government also announced creation of a special open forum on the website mygov.nic.in for suggestions on the new institution.
Planning Commission's warning over rising dependence on imports is timely.
The Election Commission will hold the 2019 general election under Arora .
Poor predictability, credibility and effectiveness of fiscal performance have been key reasons for successive governments failing to deliver on their promises.
The Planning Commission projected the Centre's fiscal deficit to come down to three per cent of the gross domestic product.
'The Congress saw Rahul as the natural leader of the party and wanted him to take a larger role'
While Congress-ruled states such as Kerala, Karnataka and Assam expressed fears about the sudden demise of the planning process and wondered what it would be replaced with, also worrying about the immediate implications on annual Plan outlays, Andhra Pradesh said it was considering setting up its own NITI Aayog.
The term of the members of the Planning Commission is co-terminus with the Prime Minister and they would be submitting their resignations once the new government is formed after the ongoing general elections next month.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Centre for limiting the number of below poverty line (PDS) people in a state to 36 per cent of its population as per the Planning Commission's recommendations.
The Planning Commission was better than the Niti Aayog as it used to take up the issues of the states with the ministries concerned.
On Friday, the nameplate of the erstwhile commission on the railings of the Yojana Bhawan was pulled down and replaced with NITI Aayog.
Amid controversy over the Gujarat government's poverty figures, the Congress on Tuesday took a jibe at the Narendra Modi-led government, questioning if poor people were only migrating to that state.
Seeking the cooperation of States in dealing with Left-wing extremism, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday asked the Planning Commission to design a holistic development programme for Naxal-affected areas.
The petroleum and natural gas ministry has asked the Planning Commission to constitute a committee to suggest a mechanism to average out prices of imported and domestic gas--a move expected to make gas prices uniform for consumers.
The Planning Commission said on Friday that the Reserve Bank of India has some headroom for rate hike of around 50 basis points.
After the Planning Commission rejected its financing plan for the second time, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is preparing a new draft plan. The earlier proposals were rejected citing that NHAI would find it difficult to borrow funds from the market.
His outburst has to rank among the most bizarre episodes of two arms of the government fighting in public.
The Planning Commission has projected that investment in infrastructure would almost double at $1025 billion in the 12th Plan, compared to $514 billion in the 11th Plan.
Freight corridor project slipping, needs supervision revamp, says Plan panel.
It may be recalled that recently differences flared up between the Planning Commission and the road transport ministry after the latter's minister Kamal Nath questioned the quality of reports produced by the Plan panel.
A report by a senior official in the Planning Commission has said the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is heading towards bankruptcy, as its debt is set to increase five times in the next three years.
On the complaint of shortage of foodgrain, the minister said lifting of foodgrain by states/Union Territories under TPDS and other welfare schemes has been less than the allocation made to them.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Planning Commission to prepare a draft bill seeking stakeholders comments on regulatory reforms, amid complaints from certain quarters about the haphazard functioning of the current set of watchdogs.
Many in the Planning Commission are not confident that making more capital available for the development of tribal areas affected by the Naxalite menace will effectively narrow down the trust deficit in these areas.
India's Planning Commission has 31 divisions and seven attached offices, which include the Unique Identification Authority of India and Independent Evaluation Office.
The Plan panel is against an NHAI proposal to increase the cost allocation of building each four-lane highway by 33 per cent.
The Niti Aayog is preparing 15-year vision document that will replace the Five-Year Plan from the next financial year
The Planning Commission on Saturday sought to play down fears that the hike in excise duty on petroleum products would lead to a surge in inflation.
National estimates of the percentage of the population falling below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group.
The perspective planning division might get a new lease of life.
The Planning Commission on Friday said that high inflation, primarily driven by rising food prices, is likely to ease in the next few months on the back of an expected good rabi crop.
'Amendments in the past have created fear. This will take it further.'
Oil and gold had accounted for 45 per cent of India's imports bill in 2012-13.
The Planning Commission had recently recommended leaving the coal prices to the market and allowing free trade of coal nationally and internationally. Although coal prices were deregulated in 2000, the rates are fixed by the coal PSUs under the guidance of the coal ministry.
Besides Parikh, Singh sent letters of appreciation to V L Chopra, B Mungekar and Anwarul Hoda indicating that they may not find a place in the reconstituted body.
The Planning Commission is likely to scale down the average growth rate for the eleventh plan period (2007-12) to 8 per cent from an earlier projection of 9 per cent.
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