Arrange the following events in chronological order.
A. Setting up Planning Commission
B. Green Revolution
C. Karve Committee
D. Second Five Year Plan
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A, C, D, B.
The four events belong to the first years of planning and to the farm policy that followed, and each carries a date. The Planning Commission came first, then a committee on small-scale industry, then the Second Plan, and the Green Revolution last:
(A) Setting up Planning Commission — 1950, with the Prime Minister as its Chairperson.
(C) Karve Committee — 1955. The Village and Small-Scale Industries Committee, which noted that small-scale industry could be used to promote rural development.
(D) Second Five Year Plan — 1956, the industrialisation plan built on the Industrial Policy Resolution of the same year.
(B) Green Revolution — from the mid-1960s, when high-yielding variety seeds were introduced to raise foodgrain output.
NCERT (2025-26): “2.1 Introduction … In 1950, the Planning Commission was set up with the Prime Minister as its Chairperson. The era of five year plans had begun. Small-Scale Industry: In 1955, the Village and Small-Scale Industries Committee, also called the Karve Committee, noted the possibility of using small-scale industries for promoting rural development.… Industrial Policy Resolution 1956 (IPR 1956): In accordance with the goal of the state controlling the commanding heights of the economy, the Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 was adopted. This resolution formed the basis of the Second Five Year Plan, the plan which tried to build the basis for a socialist pattern of society.… The Green Revolution: … As a result, in the first phase of the green revolution (approximately mid 1960s upto mid 1970s), the use of HYV seeds was restricted to the more affluent states such as Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.…” |