Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Politics of Planned Development

Question:

Huge allocations were made for large-scale projects like the Bhakhra Nangal Dam in which Five-Year Plan?

Options:

First Five-Year-Plan

Second Five-Year-Plan

Third Five-Year-Plan

Fourth Five-Year-Plan

Correct Answer:

First Five-Year-Plan

Explanation:

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.