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NITI's new 3-year strategic paper: How different is it from a 5-year plan?

The document is not required to be approved by the union cabinet

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NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant

BS Reporter New Delhi
The NITI Aayog new three-year strategic paper, which forms part of its 15-year vision document, and seven-year national development agenda that replaced the five-year plans would be conceptually different from the earlier documents. 
It will focus on shorter goals and most importantly will be aligned with the finance commission recommendations. The 12th and the last five-year plan ended on March 31, 2017.

Five-Year Plans: The five-year plan was one of the most important documents before the Planning Commission was disbanded to be replaced with the NITI Aayog. The five-year plan laid down the development and economic agenda of the government was