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title: "Perspective Planning: Long-Term Economic Vision"
description: "Perspective planning sets a 15–25 year economic vision split into five-year plans; unlike rolling plans its targets stay fixed. Key for UPSC GS3 economy prep."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- Perspective planning is the formulation of a long-term economic vision, spanning fifteen to twenty-five years, broken into successive five-year plans to achieve defined structural goals.
- How does perspective planning differ from a five-year plan?
- What is the relationship between perspective planning and rolling plans?
- Did perspective planning survive the abolition of the Planning Commission?
- Is perspective planning the same as indicative planning?

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Perspective planning is the formulation of a long-term economic vision, spanning fifteen to twenty-five years, broken into successive five-year plans to achieve defined structural goals.

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1. 15 March 1950

   The technique entered Indian economic governance through the apparatus established by the Planning Commission, constituted by a Cabinet Resolution of , and d…

2. 1 January 2015

   When the NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission on , it explicitly revived the long-horizon instrument by commissioning a fifteen-year Vision Document,…

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In 2017 NITI Aayog operationalised perspective planning by releasing a Three-Year Action Agenda (2017–20) nested within a seven-year strategy and a fifteen-year vision, replacing the Planning Commission's five-year plan architecture.

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