The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) was constituted on

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Correct — A, 18 September 2015. The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office (DMEO) was constituted on this date as an attached office of NITI Aayog, formed by merging the erstwhile Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO) and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO), to monitor and evaluate government programmes/schemes.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Wrong year. DMEO's constitution predates this — NITI Aayog itself was set up in January 2015, and DMEO followed later that same year, not in 2016.  (c) Wrong month. DMEO was constituted in September 2015, not December.  (d) Wrong on both counts — the wrong month and the wrong year.

Concept: DMEO functions under NITI Aayog (which itself replaced the Planning Commission in January 2015) as its dedicated monitoring-and-evaluation arm. It was created by merging two pre-existing units — the Programme Evaluation Organisation (PEO), which used to assess Plan schemes, and the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) — into a single office responsible for outcome monitoring, evaluation studies, and data-based feedback on government programmes.

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