Planning commissions are governmental bodies that make decisions about either

Land-use planning Land use planning is the process of regulating the use of land by a central authority. Usually, this is done to promote more desirable social and environmental outcomes as well as a more efficient use of resources. More specifically, the goals ...

Economic planning Economic planning is a resource allocation mechanism based on a computational procedure for solving a constrained maximization problem with an iterative process for obtaining its solution. Planning is a mechanism for the allocation of resources b ...

, depending on the jurisdiction. Land-use commissions: *

Planning committee A planning committee in the United Kingdom is a committee of local authority councillors that sit as the local planning authority to determine planning applications. Advice is usually given to the committee by planning officers who provide a reco ...

, a local planning authority in the United Kingdom * Planning and Zoning Commission, a local government planning body in the United States Economic commissions: * Gosplan, Soviet economic planning commission * Bangladesh Planning Commission, financial and public policy development institution of the Government of Bangladesh *

Planning Commission (India) The Planning Commission was an institution in the Government of India, which formulated India's Five-Year Plans, among other functions. In his first Independence Day speech in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his intention to diss ...

, economic institution of India that formulated its five-year plans (abolished 2016, see

NITI Aayog The NITI Aayog (; abbreviation for National Institution for Transforming India) serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development, and fostering cooperative ...

) * Planning Commission (Pakistan), similar institution in Pakistan that formulates its five-year plans

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