NITI Aayog was established in:

Explanation

NITI Aayog, the National Institution for Transforming India, was formed on 1 January 2015. The official NITI Aayog page confirms that this happened through a Union Cabinet resolution, which is why the body is treated as an executive institution rather than a constitutional or statutory one. NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission, and the Prime Minister is its Chairperson. For RAS, the date is often tested because the options cluster around 2014 and 2015; the decisive marker is not the financial year or Independence Day, but the Cabinet resolution dated 1 January 2015.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) 15 August 2014 is before the Union Cabinet resolution that formed NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015.
• (B) 1 April 2015 wrongly treats the answer as a financial-year date, while the official formation date is 1 January 2015.
• (C) 1 January 2014 is a full year before NITI Aayog was formed and does not match the official date.

Concept

This tests executive bodies in Indian governance, especially the distinction between constitutional, statutory and executive institutions. It recurs in RAS because NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission and is tied to basic questions on planning and governance institutions.

Source

• NITI Aayog

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