In place of the 'Planning Commission', when was the new institution 'NITI Aayog' constituted?

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Correct — C, 1 January 2015. The Union Cabinet passed a resolution on 1 January 2015 replacing the Planning Commission with NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India), envisioned as a policy think-tank that fosters cooperative and competitive federalism in place of the Planning Commission's top-down, five-year-plan model.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) No institutional replacement happened on this date; the Planning Commission continued functioning through 2014.  (b) This is the date the Planning Commission itself was set up by a Cabinet resolution — the body being replaced, not the date of replacement.  (d) No major reconstitution of NITI Aayog took place on this date; the institution was already about a year old by then.

Concept: NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) is a Cabinet-resolution policy think-tank — not a constitutional or statutory body — that replaced the similarly non-constitutional Planning Commission (established 15 March 1950) on 1 January 2015. It shifted India's planning approach from a centralised, target-driven Five-Year-Plan model to a bottom-up, cooperative-federalism advisory model.

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