Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Structural Change

Question:

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

Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

2

Explanation:
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.