Arrange the events in the correct chronological order.
A. Setting up of Planning Commission
B. Bombay Plan
C. Foundation of Indian Statistical Institute
D. NITI Aayog came into existence
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → C, B, A, D
(C) Foundation of Indian Statistical Institute — 1931, by P.C. Mahalanobis.
(B) Bombay Plan — 1944.
(A) Setting up of Planning Commission — March 1950.
(D) NITI Aayog came into existence — 1 January 2015.
NCERT (2025-26): “Planning … Thus the Planning Commission was not a sudden invention. In fact, it has a very interesting history. … Rather, a section of the big industrialists got together in 1944 and drafted a joint proposal for setting up a planned economy in the country. It was called the Bombay Plan. … Soon after India became independent, the Planning Commission came into being. The Prime Minister was its Chairperson.”
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