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title: "Seven Year Strategy & Fifteen Year Vision: NITI Aayog"
description: "The Seven-Year Strategy and Fifteen-Year Vision replaced India's Five-Year Plans in 2017, guiding NITI Aayog's approach to long-term development."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- The Seven-Year Strategy and Fifteen-Year Vision were NITI Aayog's successor planning documents, replacing India's Five-Year Plans after the Planning Commission was dissolved in 2014.
- Why did the Seven-Year Strategy and Fifteen-Year Vision replace the Five-Year Plans?
- What were the three tiers of the new planning framework?
- Were all three documents actually published?
- How does NITI Aayog's strategy differ from the old Plan outlays?

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## Timeline

1. 1 January 2015

   The Seven-Year Strategy and Fifteen-Year Vision constitute the planning architecture adopted by India after the dissolution of the Planning Commission and th…

2. 31 March 2017

   The Planning Commission, established by a Cabinet resolution in March 1950, had directed the Indian economy through twelve Five-Year Plans, the last of which…

3. 15 August 2014

   Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Independence Day address of , signalled the institution's replacement; the formal NITI Aayog resolution tasked the new b…

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In December 2018, NITI Aayog under Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar released "Strategy for New India @ 75," the operative version of the Seven-Year Strategy, targeting a US$4 trillion economy by 2022–23.

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