Pick the correct statement about the National Planning Committee.

(A) It was set up by Indian National congress

(B) The committee was set up in 1939

(C) The committee could not make a headway as World War I began

(D) Jawahar Lal Nehru was the chairman

(E) The arrest of its chairman in 1939 hindered its working

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(1) (A), (B), (C) only

(2) (A), (D), (E) only

(3) (B), (D), (B) only

(4) (B), (C), (D) only

2

The correct answer is Option 2: 2

• (A) It was set up by Indian National Congress — Correct. The National Planning Committee was set up by the Indian National Congress in 1938.
• (B) The committee was set up in 1939 — Incorrect. It was established in 1938, not 1939. 
• (C) The committee could not make a headway as World War I began — Incorrect. The issue was related to World War II, not World War I.
• (D) Jawahar Lal Nehru was the chairman — Correct. Jawaharlal Nehru was the chairman of the committee.
• (E) The arrest of its chairman in 1939 hindered its working — Correct. Nehru’s arrest affected the functioning of the committee. 

NCERT: "Nearly a decade before the country’s Independence, in 1938 a National Planning Committee with Jawaharlal Nehru as the Chairman and K.T. Shah as the general editor was set up by the Indian National Congress. The Committee started functioning in 1939, but it could not make much headway as the chairman was arrested by the British and the war broke out."