<P> Rudimentary economic planning , deriving from the sovereign authority of the state , was first initiated in India in 1938 by Congress President and Indian National Army supreme leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose , who had been persuaded by Meghnad Saha to set up a National Planning Committee . M. Visvesvaraya had been elected head of the Planning Committee . Meghnad Saha approached the great engineer and requested him to step down . He argued that planning needed a reciprocity between science and politics . M. Visvesvaraya generously agreed and Jawaharlal Nehru was made head of the National Planning Committee. The so - called `` British Raj '' also formally established Advisory Planning Board under K.C. Neogy that functioned from 1944 to 1946 . Industrialists and economists independently formulated at least three development plans in 2012 . Some scholars have argued that the introduction of planning as an instrument was intended to transcend the ideological divisions between Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru . Other scholars have argued that the Planning Commission , as a central agency in the context of plural democracy in India , needs to carry out more functions than rudimentary economic planning . </P>
<P> Rudimentary economic planning , deriving from the sovereign authority of the state , was first initiated in India in 1938 by Congress President and Indian National Army supreme leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose , who had been persuaded by Meghnad Saha to set up a National Planning Committee . M. Visvesvaraya had been elected head of the Planning Committee . Meghnad Saha approached the great engineer and requested him to step down . He argued that planning needed a reciprocity between science and politics . M. Visvesvaraya generously agreed and Jawaharlal Nehru was made head of the National Planning Committee. The so - called `` British Raj '' also formally established Advisory Planning Board under K.C. Neogy that functioned from 1944 to 1946 . Industrialists and economists independently formulated at least three development plans in 2012 . Some scholars have argued that the introduction of planning as an instrument was intended to transcend the ideological divisions between Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru . Other scholars have argued that the Planning Commission , as a central agency in the context of plural democracy in India , needs to carry out more functions than rudimentary economic planning . </P>
who headed the national planning committee of india in 1938
who headed the national planning committee of india in 1938
M. Visvesvaraya
M. Visvesvaraya