Practicing Success
The initial proposal and subsequent release of the First Five-Year Plan in December 1951 generated considerable enthusiasm throughout the country. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including academics, journalists, government officials, private sector employees, industrialists, farmers, and politicians, actively engaged in extensive discussions and debates surrounding the plan. The enthusiasm for planning reached its zenith with the commencement of the Second Five-Year Plan in 1956 and persisted to some extent until the Third Five-Year Plan in 1961. The implementation of the Fourth Plan was scheduled to commence in 1966. |
Assertion: K.N. Raj argued that India should ‘hasten slowly’ for the first two decades in order to get the country's economy out of poverty. |
Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct and the Reason is the correct explanation of the Assertion. Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion. The Assertion is incorrect but the Reason is correct. The Assertion is correct but the Reason is incorrect. |
Both the Assertion and the Reason are correct but the Reason is not the correct explanation of the Assertion. |
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. |