When was the State Planning Board formed in Madhya Pradesh?

State Planning Boards (or State Planning Commissions, as several states now call them) are institutional bodies that state governments in India constitute — typically through an executive resolution of the General Administration Department rather than a separate law — to formulate and coordinate the state's Five-Year and Annual development plans in line with the national planning framework, and to advise the Cabinet on development priorities and resource allocation.

In Madhya Pradesh, the State Planning Board was constituted through a General Administration Department resolution dated 24th October, 1972. It has since served as the state's apex planning-advisory body, generally headed by the Chief Minister with senior officials and subject experts as members, and its mandate later continued under the renamed State Planning Commission.

Checking this against the other dates offered confirms the choice:

• 1st November, 1956 is the date Madhya Pradesh itself came into existence as a state, under the States Reorganisation Act — a milestone for the state's formation, not for the Board's constitution.

• 1st November, 2007 corresponds to a later phase in the evolution of the state's planning machinery (the renaming of the Board as the State Planning Commission), after the Board had already existed for decades.

• 1st November, 1978 does not correspond to any resolution constituting the Board and can be ruled out on the same basis.

Hence, the State Planning Board in Madhya Pradesh was formed on 24th October, 1972.