Who visualised independent India to be built on an edifice of giant steel plants and power stations?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Jawahar Lal Nehru
Note: The lines on Nehru’s vision of a modern India built on giant steel plants, gigantic dams and power stations, in the section ‘Industrialisation in Independent India’ of the chapter ‘Structural Change’, were there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, the textbook of 2022. This portion has been deleted from the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter and the section are still there.
NCERT (2025-26): “Industrialisation in Independent India … For Indian nationalists the issue of economic exploitation under colonial rule was a central issue. Images of pre-colonial fabled riches of India contrasted with the poverty of British India. The Swadeshi movement strengthened the loyalty to the national economy. Modern ideas made people realise that poverty was preventable. Indian nationalists saw rapid industrialisation of the economy as the path towards both growth and social equity. Development of heavy and machine-making industries, expansion of the public sector and holding of a large cooperative sector were considered very important.” NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “Industrialisation in Independent India … A modern and prosperous India, as visualised by Jawaharlal Nehru, was to be built on an edifice of giant steel plants or gigantic dams and power stations.…” |