Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Economics

Chapter

Indian Economic Development: Poverty

Question:

The following line has been quoted in which five-year plan?

“The benefits of economic development must accrue more and more to the relatively less privileged classes of society”

Options:

Fourth Five-year Plan

Second Five-year Plan

Fourth Five-year Plan

Twelfth Five-year Plan

Correct Answer:

Second Five-year Plan

Explanation:

One can find, in all policy documents, the emphasis being laid on poverty alleviation and that various strategies need to be adopted by the government for the same. The Second Five-Year Plan (1956-61) also pointed out that “the benefits of economic development must accrue more and more to the relatively less privileged classes of society”.