(B) Chairman of Planning Commission was happened to be the head of the ruling government, Prime Minister of India. The Planning Commission was an institution in the Government of India,which formulated India’s Five-Year Plans, among other functions. With the Prime Minister as the ex officio Chairman, the committee had a nominated Deputy Chairman,with the rank of a full Cabinet Minister. Cabinet Ministers with certain important portfolios acted as ex officio members of the Commission. On 1 January 2015, a Cabinet resolution was passed to replace the Planning Commission with the NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India).