10 issues PM Modi discussed in his Independence Day speech

Contending that times have changed, the Prime Minister announced that Planning Commission, set up in 1950, will be scrapped and replaced with a new institution. "The Planning Commission was born at a time when there was a need felt for it. It has done its service in its own way. But now things have changed internally in the country and also global situation has changed. Now, governments are no longer the centre of economic activity.