Since the Prime Minister of India happened to be the ex-officio chairperson of Planning Commission of India, the position of the deputy chairperson had great significance.
|| 21 September 1963 || Minister of Planning, later Prime Minister of India |- |2 || V. T. Krishnamachari || 17 February 1953 || 21 June 1960 || |- |3 || Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi || 22 September 1963 || 2 December 1963 || |- |4 || Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil || 2 September 1967 || 1 May 1971 || |- |8 || P. N. Haksar || 4 January 1975 || 31 May 1977 || |- |9 || D. T. Lakdawala || 1 June 1977 || 15 February 1980 || |- |10 || N. D. Tiwari || 9 June 1980 || 8 August 1981 || Minister of Planning |- |11 || Shankarrao Chavan || 9 August 1981 || 19 July 1984 || Minister of Planning |- |12 || Prakash Chandra Sethi || 20 July 1984 || 31 October 1984 || Minister of Planning |- |13 || P. V. Narasimha Rao || 1 November 1984 || 14 January 1985 || Later Prime Minister of India |- |14 || Manmohan Singh || 15 January 1985 || 31 August 1987 || Later Prime Minister of India |- |15 || P. Shiv Shankar || 25 July 1987 || 29 June 1988 || Minister of Planning |- |16 || Madhav Singh Solanki || 30 June 1988 || 16 August 1989 || Minister of Planning |- |17 || Ramakrishna Hegde || 5 December 1989 || 6 July 1990 || |- |18 || Madhu Dandavate || 7 July 1990 || 10 December 1990 || Finance Minister of India |- |19 || Mohan Dharia || 11 December 1990 || 24 June 1991 || |- |20 || Pranab Mukherjee || 24 June 1991 || 15 May 1996 ||Later President of India |- |(18) || Madhu Dandavate || 1 August 1996 || 21 March 1998 || |- |21 || Jaswant Singh || 25 March 1998 || 4 February 1999 ||Later Minister of Finance & External Affairs |- |22 || K. C. Pant|| 5 February 1999 || 17 June 2004 || |- |23 || Montek Singh Ahluwalia || 6 July 2004 || 26 May 2014 || |- |}
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