National Development Council

It is a body, which studies and approbes the Apprach Plan to the Five Year Plans and the Five Year Plan Documents. The NDC is not a constituional body. The Union Cabinet had set up NDC in 1952. It is headed by Prime Minister and has all Union Cabinet Ministers, Chief Ministers of all states, and members of Planning Commission as its members.

Functions:-

1. To prescribe guidelines for the formation of the national plan.
2. To consider the national plans formulated by the planning commission.
3. To consider the important questions of socio-economic policy affecting the development of the nation.
4. Implementation of Integrated Rural Development programmes.
5. To review the progress of the fiver year plan mid-course and suggest measures for achieving the original targets.