Match List - I with List - II.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

The correct answer is option (2) - (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

Correct Match

Explanation:

P.C. Mahalanobis (1893-1972) was an esteemed scientist and statistician of international renown. He founded the Indian Statistical Institute in 1931. Mahalanobis played a key role as the architect of India's Second Five-Year Plan.

The First Five-Year Plan (1951–1956) sought to get the country’s economy out of the cycle of poverty. K.N. Raj, a young economist involved in drafting the plan, argued that India should ‘hasten slowly’ for the first two decades as a fast rate of development might endanger democracy. The First Five Year Plan addressed, mainly, the agrarian sector including investment in dams and irrigation.

J.C. Kumarappa (1892-1960): Original name J.C. Cornelius; economist and chartered accountant; studied in England and USA; follower of Mahatma Gandhi; tried to apply Gandhian principles to economic policies; author of ‘Economy of Permanence’.

The White Revolution in Gujarat was started by ‘Verghese Kurien’ known as the 'Milkman of India' to launch Gujarat Cooperative Milk and Marketing Federation Ltd., which further launched ‘Amul. Amul is a dairy cooperative movement based in the ‘Anand’ town of Gujarat to become a uniquely appropriate model for rural development and poverty alleviation.