In which year was the National Development Council formed?

Concept

For a public institution’s founding year, use the date of its formal constituting resolution or notification. Do not substitute the date of a related plan, a later reorganization, or a successor institution.

Application

1. The Government of India constituted the National Development Council by an executive resolution on 6 August 1952 to strengthen and mobilize the nation’s planning effort.

2. The formation year recorded by that resolution is 1952, which is one of the offered values.

Cross-check and contrast

The Planning Commission had been established earlier, in 1950. The National Development Council followed in 1952.

• 1947 marks independence and predates the institutional planning framework of the 1950s.

• 1965 belongs to the closing phase of the Third Five-Year Plan.

• 1966 begins the annual-plan period after the Third Five-Year Plan.

Result: The National Development Council was formed in 1952.