Pick the correct statement about the National Planning Committee. (A)…

The correct answer is Option (2) → (A), (D), (E) only

(A) It was set up by Indian National Congress Correct. In 1938, nearly a decade before Independence, a National Planning Committee was set up by the Indian National Congress.

(B) The committee was set up in 1939 Incorrect. It was set up in 1938; 1939 is the year it started functioning.

(C) The committee could not make a headway as World War I began Incorrect. The war that broke out when the Committee had just started work, in 1939, was the Second World War. The First World War had ended in 1918, twenty years before the Committee was set up.

(D) Jawahar Lal Nehru was the chairman Correct. The Committee had Jawaharlal Nehru as the Chairman and K.T. Shah as the general editor.

(E) The arrest of its chairman hindered its working Correct. The Committee could not make much headway because the chairman was arrested by the British and the war broke out.

Note: Box 1.9 on the National Planning Committee, in the chapter ‘Structural Change’, was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT, the textbook of 2022. This box has been deleted from the NCERT book (2025-26), though the chapter is still there.