What is not true about the First Five Year Plan of independent India?

Statement 1- It focused on rapid industrialization.
Statement 2- It identified the pattern of land distribution in India as the main obstacle in the growth of agriculture.
Statement 3- Huge allocations were made for large-scale projects like the Bhakhra Nangal Dam.
Statement 4- It addressed mainly the agrarian sector.

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

Statement 1.

The correct answer is Option 1 - Statement 1.

Statement 1- It focused on rapid industrialization. (INCORRECT)
Statement 2- It identified the pattern of land distribution in India as the main obstacle in the growth of agriculture.
Statement 3- Huge allocations were made for large-scale projects like the Bhakhra Nangal Dam.
Statement 4- It addressed mainly the agrarian sector.

Features of the First Five-Year Plan:

The draft of the First Five-Year Plan and then the actual Plan Document, released in December 1951, generated a lot of excitement in the country.
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.
Huge allocations were made for large-scale projects like the Bhakhra Nangal Dam.
The Plan identified the pattern of land distribution in the country as the principal obstacle to agricultural growth.
It focused on land reforms as the key to the country’s development.

(The second Five Year Plan emphasized heavy industries and industrialization, not the first five year plan.)