Part-II
Chapter 3: Politics of Planned Development

Important Questions

1. Who is the ex-officio chairperson of the Planning Commission of India? (All India 2013)

2. What was ‘Bombay Plan’? (All India 2013)

3. What was significant about PC Mahalanobis? (All India 2013)
OR
Who was PC Mahalanobis? (Delhi 2009)

4. Who was popularly known as ‘the milkman of India’? (All India 2013)

5. What was the main objective of the second Five Year Plan? (All India 2012)

Sample Questions

1. When was India’s New Economic Policy launched? Who was its chief architect? (All India 2009)

2. Differentiate between the capitalist and the socialist models of development. (All India 2014)

3. Differentiate between the main objective of the First and the Second Five Year (Delhi 2014)

4. Mention any two merits of Green Revolution. (All India 2013)

5. Explain any four reasons for the dominance of the Congress Party in the first three general elections. (All India 2016, Delhi 2013)

6. Which are the two models of development? Which model of development was adopted by India? (Delhi 2013)