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Answer
PART -1
Which of these statements about the Bombay (b) Experiences of the Soviet bloc countries
Plan is incorrect?
(c) Gandhian Vision of Society
(a) It was a blueprint for India’s economic
future. (d) Demand by Peasant Organisation
Answer
Answer: (a) It was a blueprint for India’s
economic future. Answer: (III) (a) and (b) only.
Question 2. Question 4.
Which of the following ideas did not form part Match the following:
of the early phase of India’s development
policy? (a) Charan Singh (i) Industrialisation
Answer:
Question 7.
(a) Charan Singh (iii) Farmers How many plans have been completed so far in
India?
(b) P.C. Mahalanobis (i) Industrialisation
(a) Twelve
(c) Bihar Famine (ii) Zoning
(b) Six
(d) Verghese Kurien (iv) Milk Cooperatives
(c) Eight
Question 5.
(d) Four
Who said, “Planning is a way of organizing and
utilizing resources to maximum advantage in Answer
terms of defined social ends”?
Answer: (a) Twelve
(a) K.T. Shah
(d) 1950
Question 6.
Answer
In India, planning was conceived as the main
instrument of: Answer: (d) 1950
Answer
Answer
Question 11.
Answer: Planning Commission was set up in
Which Indian thinker emphasized planning in March 1950.
India and when?
Question 15.
Answer
In which year First Five Year Plan was started?
Answer: M. Visvesarayya in 1934 emphasized
the necessity of planning in India.
Answer
Question 12. Answer: The First Five Year Plan was started in
1951.
From where the idea of planning in India was
drawn.
Question 16.
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PART -2
Q1.Which of the following groups has proposed for the joint setting of planned economy known as the
Bombay Plan?
The Rightists
The Leftist
Big Industrialists
The Nationalists
The USSR
Australia
Japan
Q3.The second five-year plan was draft under the leadership of ________.
P.C. Mahalanobis
C. Kumar
N. Raj
N. Roy
Eighth
Ninth
Sixth
Tenth
Jawaharlal Nehru
P.C. Mahalanobis
K.N. Raj
Morarji Desai
Social development
Political development
Socio-economic development
Cultural development
Q7.Which of the following states has not gained from the Green Revolution?
Western UP
Gujarat
Haryana
Punjab
Q8.Which of the following ideas did not form part of the early phase of India’s development policy?
Cooperative Farming
Self sufficiency
Planning
Liberalisation
2017
2015
2014
2012
Q10.In which state the people protest against the proposed Korean POSCO plant?
UP
Andhra Pradesh
Orissa
Karnataka
Q11.Assertion (A): The nationalist leaders were clear that the economic concerns of the government of
free India would have to be different from the narrowly defined commercial functions of the colonial
government.
Reason (R): It was further clear that the eradication of poverty was not the responsibility of the
government, but the people.
Q12.Assertion (A): India did not follow any of the two known paths to development -neither the
capitalist model nor the socialist model.
Reason (R): It was India's one of biggest mistakes that it did not adopt any one of the two models.
Question No. 13 to 17 are based on the given text. Read the text carefully and answer the questions:
The Government of India replaced the Planning Commission with a new institution named NITI Aayog
(National Institution for Transforming India). This came into existence on 1 January 2015. The Planning
Commission is not one of the many commissions and other bodies set up by the Constitution. The
Planning Commission was set up in March 1950 by a simple resolution of the Government of India. It has
an advisory role and its recommendations become effective only when the Union Cabinet approved
these. As in the USSR, the Planning Commission of India opted for five year plans (FYP). The idea is very
simple: the Government of India prepares a document that has a plan for all its income and expenditure
for the next five years. Accordingly, the budget of the central and all the State governments is divided
into two parts: ‘non-plan’ budget that is spent on routine items on a yearly basis and ‘plan’ budget that
is spent on a five-year basis as per the priorities fixed by the plan. A five-year plan has the advantage of
permitting the government to focus on the larger picture and make a long-term intervention in the
economy.
Planning Commission
Election Commission
RTI
CAG
1956
1950
1976
1952
Q15.From which of the following the country the idea of planning was taken?
Norway
USSR
Finland
USA
Q16.Into how many parts the budget of the central government is divided?
Ten
Two
Five
One
Q17.The recommendations of NITI Aayog can become effective only after which of the following’s
approval?
Prime Minister
State Government
Union Cabinet
President
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Solution
Explanation: A section of the big industrialists got together in 1944 and drafted a joint proposal for
setting up a planned economy in the country. It was called the Bombay Plan. The Bombay Plan wanted
the state to take major initiatives in industrial and other economic investments.
(b) Ninth
Explanation: Ninth five year plan was formed during 1997-2002. This period saw the change in the
government. The Ninth plan was started with an objective of “Growth with Social Justice and Equality”.
It also assigned importance to agriculture growth.
Explanation: After India achieved independence, a formal model of planning was adopted, and
accordingly, the Planning Commission, reporting directly to the Prime Minister of India, was established
on 15 March 1950, with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the Chairman.
(b) Gujarat
Explanation: The rich peasants and the large landholders were the major beneficiaries of the Green
Revolution. Some regions like Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh became agriculturally
prosperous, while others remained backwards.
(d) Liberalisation
Explanation: Planning, cooperative farming, self-sufficiency were ideas that were introduced in the early
phase of India’s development policy. Liberalisation came much later in the year 1991. Liberalisation
meant more investment from domestic and economic investors for economic expansion based on an
economy that advocated services and market forces.
(c) 2014
Explanation: In 2014, the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that his
government would replace the Planning Commission with a new body named NITI Aayog (National
Institution for Transforming India). This came into existence on 1 January 2015.
(c) Orissa
Explanation: People facing displacement by the proposed POSCO-India steel plant in Jagatsinghpur
district staged a demonstration outside the Korean company’s office. They were demanding cancellation
of the memorandum of understanding signed between the company and the Orissa government one
year ago.
Explanation: The task of poverty alleviation and social and economic redistribution was being seen
primarily as the responsibility of the government because for some people industrialization was a
priority while for others, the development of agriculture and alleviation of rural poverty was the priority.
Explanation: Elements of both these models (capitalist and socialist) were taken and mixed together in
India and hence, it did not accept the capitalist model of development in which development was left
entirely to the private sector, nor did it follow the socialist model in which private property was
abolished and all the production was controlled by central authority.
(b) 1950
(b) USSR
(b) Two