CHAPTER 3 POLITICS OF PLANNED DEVELOPMENT MCQs
1. What is the primary reason for Orissa being considered an important investment destination?
(a) Large tribal population
(b) Abundance of untapped iron ore reserves
(c) Government initiatives for tourism
(d) Presence of established industries
Answer
Answer: (b) Abundance of untapped iron ore reserves
2. What is the government’s expectation from signing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with steel makers?
(a) Increase in tribal population
(b) Capital investment and employment opportunities
(c) Decline in iron ore demand
(d) Environmental conservation
Answer
Answer: (b) Capital investment and employment opportunities
3. What is the main concern of the tribal population regarding the setting up of industries?
(a) Economic downturn
(b) Pollution of the environment
(c) Fear of displacement
(d) Lack of government support
Answer
Answer: (c) Fear of displacement
4. What is the environmentalists’ primary concern regarding mining and industry?
(a) Lack of technological advancements
(b) Economic instability
(c) Pollution of the environment
(d) Loss of cultural heritage
Answer
Answer: (c) Pollution of the environment
5. Why does the central government think allowing the industry is essential?
(a) To set a bad example
(b) To encourage investments in the country
(c) To discourage economic growth
(d) To promote environmental conservation
Answer
Answer: (b) To encourage investments in the country
6. What do environmentalists fear about the consequences of mining and industry?
(a) Loss of cultural heritage
(b) Positive impact on the environment
(c) Economic stability
(d) Pollution of the environment
Answer
Answer: (d) Pollution of the environment
7. What is the central government’s concern if the industry is not allowed?
(a) Positive impact on the environment
(b) Economic stability
(c) Set a bad example and discourage investments
(d) Encouragement of environmental conservation
Answer
Answer: (c) Set a bad example and discourage investments
8. What larger questions are raised concerning the development of Orissa?
(a) Cultural heritage preservation
(b) Whose need can be called Orissa’s need?
(c) Positive environmental impact
(d) Government support for tribal populations
Answer
Answer: (b) Whose need can be called Orissa’s need?
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1. According to the passage, why are decisions of this kind difficult to answer by experts alone?
(a) Experts lack knowledge
(b) Involves weighing social interests
(c) Lack of expertise in history
(d) Experts disagree on major decisions
Answer
Answer: (b) Involves weighing social interests
2. In a democracy, what is emphasized regarding major decisions like those mentioned in the passage?
(a) Decision-making by businessmen
(b) Decision-making by experts alone
(c) Decision-making by the people themselves
(d) Decision-making by foreign nations
Answer
Answer: (c) Decision-making by the people themselves
3. According to the passage, whose approval is necessary for major decisions in a democracy?
(a) Approval of foreign experts
(b) Approval of environmentalists
(c) Approval of people’s representatives
(d) Approval of businessmen
Answer
Answer: (c) Approval of people’s representatives
4. What role is expected of the government in the shared vision of economic development after Independence?
(a) Minimal role in economic growth
(b) No role in ensuring justice
(c) Key role in economic growth and justice
(d) Key role only in industrial development
Answer
Answer: (c) Key role in economic growth and justice
5. What was the major point of disagreement after Independence regarding the government’s role in economic development?
(a) Government should have no role
(b) Centralized institution for planning
(c) Foreign countries should plan for India
(d) Businessmen should handle economic development
Answer
Answer: (b) Centralized institution for planning
6. What aspect of economic development raised questions about the government’s involvement?
(a) Technological advancements
(b) Cultural preservation
(c) Needs of justice conflicting with economic growth
(d) Lack of expert advice
Answer
Answer: (c) Needs of justice conflicting with economic growth
7. According to the passage, what are these major decisions bound together by?
(a) Shared vision of political parties
(b) Shared vision of economic development
(c) Shared vision of foreign nations
(d) Shared vision of industrialists
Answer
Answer: (b) Shared vision of economic development
8. What does the passage suggest about the process of development in India?
(a) It is entirely handled by businessmen
(b) It involves political judgment and consultations
(c) It requires no public approval
(d) It is solely the responsibility of environmentalists
Answer
Answer: (b) It involves political judgment and consultations
9. What is highlighted as a crucial element in the history of politics in India?
(a) Business decisions
(b) Environmental conservation
(c) Process of development
(d) Role of foreign nations
Answer
Answer: (c) Process of development
10. What is the primary reason for studying the process of development as mentioned in the passage?
(a) To criticize the government
(b) To understand economic growth
(c) As a part of the history of politics in India
(d) To promote the interests of businessmen
Answer
Answer: (c) As a part of the history of politics in India
1. What does the passage suggest about the contestation surrounding the idea of development?
(a) It leads to unanimous agreement
(b) It generates contradictions, conflicts, and debates
(c) It promotes harmonious discussions
(d) It has no impact on the development process
Answer
Answer: (b) It generates contradictions, conflicts, and debates
2. According to the passage, what does ‘development’ mean to different sections of the people in the context of Orissa?
(a) Uniform progress
(b) Industrialization
(c) Different meanings
(d) Traditional social structures
Answer
Answer: (c) Different meanings
3. Who might view development as the planning to set up a steel plant?
(a) Urban consumer
(b) Adivasi
(c) Industrialist
(d) Environmentalist
Answer
Answer: (c) Industrialist
4. What was common during the first decade after Independence in terms of measuring development?
(a) Using a global standard
(b) Referring to the ‘East’
(c) Ignoring the West
(d) No standard for measuring development
Answer
Answer: (a) Using a global standard
5. What did the idea of ‘modern’ development during the first decade after Independence associate with?
(a) Breakdown of traditional social structures
(b) Preservation of traditional values
(c) Adivasi empowerment
(d) Agricultural growth
Answer
Answer: (a) Breakdown of traditional social structures
6. What did the common idea of ‘development’ involve during the first decade after Independence?
(a) Becoming more like the industrialized countries of the West
(b) Rejecting the West’s progress
(c) Staying rooted in traditional practices
(d) Ignoring economic progress
Answer
Answer: (a) Becoming more like the industrialized countries of the West
1. What were the two models of modern development that India faced on the eve of Independence?
(a) Capitalist and Communist
(b) Liberal-capitalist and socialist
(c) Democratic and autocratic
(d) Industrialist and agrarian
Answer
Answer: (b) Liberal-capitalist and socialist
2. Who were some of the leaders in India impressed by the Soviet model of development?
(a) Only leaders of the Communist Party of India
(b) Leaders of the Socialist Party and Nehru within the Congress
(c) Only leaders of the Congress party
(d) Leaders of the Liberal Party
Answer
Answer: (b) Leaders of the Socialist Party and Nehru within the Congress
3. What was the broad consensus among nationalist leaders during the national movement regarding economic concerns?
(a) Government’s role should be similar to the colonial government
(b) Poverty alleviation and economic redistribution were government responsibilities
(c) Economic concerns should be left to private actors
(d) Development should be solely driven by private investors
Answer
Answer: (b) Poverty alleviation and economic redistribution were government responsibilities
4. Despite various differences, what was the consensus point among leaders regarding development?
(a) Private actors should drive development
(b) The government should have no role in development
(c) The government needed to plan for development
(d) Development should be solely market-driven
Answer
Answer: (c) The government needed to plan for development
5. What contributed to the consensus for the idea of planning as a process of rebuilding the economy?
(a) Lack of economic growth in the Soviet Union
(b) Great Depression in Europe
(c) Strong economic growth in the US
(d) Inter-war reconstruction of China
Answer
Answer: (b) Great Depression in Europe
6. What was the Bombay Plan, and who proposed it?
(a) A plan for industrialization proposed by the government
(b) A plan for a market-driven economy proposed by private investors
(c) A plan for agricultural development proposed by farmers
(d) A plan for socialist development proposed by the Congress party
Answer
Answer: (b) A plan for a market-driven economy proposed by private investors
7. When did the Planning Commission come into existence in India?
(a) Before Independence
(b) During the British colonial rule
(c) Immediately after Independence
(d) In the 1960s
Answer
Answer: (c) Immediately after Independence
8. Who was the Chairperson of the Planning Commission?
(a) The President
(b) The Prime Minister
(c) The Finance Minister
(d) The Chief Justice
Answer
Answer: (b) The Prime Minister
9. What did the Planning Commission become in terms of its influence?
(a) A minor advisory body
(b) The most influential and central machinery for deciding India’s development path
(c) A market-driven organization
(d) A socialist development organization
Answer
Answer: (b) The most influential and central machinery for deciding India’s development path
10. What was the main purpose of the Bombay Plan?
(a) To establish a socialist economy
(b) To promote agricultural development
(c) To advocate for a planned economy with government initiatives
(d) To support private actors in the economy
Answer
Answer: (c) To advocate for a planned economy with government initiatives
11. What did the nationalist leaders agree on regarding the responsibility of the government after Independence?
(a) Economic concerns should be left to private actors
(b) Poverty alleviation and economic redistribution were not government responsibilities
(c) Government’s role should be similar to the colonial government
(d) Poverty alleviation and economic redistribution were government responsibilities
Answer
Answer: (d) Poverty alleviation and economic redistribution were government responsibilities
12. What was the common perception about private investors and their attitude towards planning in India?
(a) They were supportive of an open economy without state control
(b) They were against any form of planning
(c) They only supported socialist planning
(d) They preferred a completely state-controlled economy
Answer
Answer: (a) They were supportive of an open economy without state control
13. What contributed to the idea of planning gaining public support in the 1940s and 1950s?
(a) Failure of planning in the Soviet Union
(b) Success of planning in Europe
(c) Great Depression in the US
(d) Spectacular economic growth in the Soviet Union
Answer
Answer: (d) Spectacular economic growth in the Soviet Union
14. When did the Planning Commission come into existence in India?
(a) 1930s
(b) 1940s
(c) 1950s
(d) 1960s
Answer
Answer: (c) 1950s
15. Who proposed the Bombay Plan?
(a) Indian farmers
(b) British colonial rulers
(c) Big industrialists in India
(d) Soviet leaders
Answer
Answer: (c) Big industrialists in India
16. What was the main purpose of the Bombay Plan?
(a) To establish a socialist economy
(b) To promote agricultural development
(c) To advocate for a planned economy with government initiatives
(d) To support private actors in the economy
Answer
Answer: (c) To advocate for a planned economy with government initiatives
17. Who was the Chairperson of the Planning Commission?
(a) The President
(b) The Prime Minister
(c) The Finance Minister
(d) The Chief Justice
Answer
Answer: (b) The Prime Minister
18. What did the Planning Commission become in terms of its influence?
(a) A minor advisory body
(b) The most influential and central machinery for deciding India’s development path
(c) A market-driven organization
(d) A socialist development organization
Answer
Answer: (b) The most influential and central machinery for deciding India’s development path
19. What was the main purpose of the Bombay Plan?
(a) To establish a socialist economy
(b) To promote agricultural development
(c) To advocate for a planned economy with government initiatives
(d) To support private actors in the economy
Answer
Answer: (c) To advocate for a planned economy with government initiatives
20. Who was the Chairperson of the Planning Commission?
(a) The President
(b) The Prime Minister
(c) The Finance Minister
(d) The Chief Justice
Answer
Answer: (b) The Prime Minister
1. What was the main concept behind the five-year plans in India?
(a) Yearly budget planning
(b) Long-term intervention in the economy
(c) Monthly financial planning
(d) Random economic decisions
Answer
Answer: (b) Long-term intervention in the economy
2. How is the budget of the central and state governments divided in the context of five-year plans?
(a) Yearly basis
(b) Monthly basis
(c) Two parts: ‘non-plan’ and ‘plan’ budgets
(d) Quarterly basis
Answer
Answer: (c) Two parts: ‘non-plan’ and ‘plan’ budgets
3. What does the ‘non-plan’ budget cover?
(a) Routine items on a yearly basis
(b) Long-term economic goals
(c) Monthly expenses
(d) Unplanned expenditures
Answer
Answer: (a) Routine items on a yearly basis
4. What advantage does a five-year plan offer to the government?
(a) Short-term focus
(b) Yearly intervention
(c) Long-term focus on the larger picture
(d) Random economic decisions
Answer
Answer: (c) Long-term focus on the larger picture
5. When was the draft of the First Five Year Plan released?
(a) 1947
(b) 1951
(c) 1956
(d) 1966
Answer
Answer: (b) 1951
6. What did the actual Plan Document of the First Five Year Plan generate in the country?
(a) Economic crisis
(b) Plan holiday
(c) Excitement and extensive discussions
(d) Decline in economic development
Answer
Answer: (c) Excitement and extensive discussions
7. When did the excitement with planning reach its peak?
(a) First Five Year Plan
(b) Second Five Year Plan
(c) Third Five Year Plan
(d) Fourth Five Year Plan
Answer
Answer: (b) Second Five Year Plan
8. Why did the government decide to take a ‘plan holiday’?
(a) Decline in economic development
(b) Acute economic crisis
(c) Critics’ feedback on the plans
(d) Lack of public support
Answer
Answer: (b) Acute economic crisis
9. What was the main criticism about the Fourth Five Year Plan?
(a) Lack of excitement
(b) Lack of government involvement
(c) Novelty of planning had declined
(d) Overemphasis on economic crisis
Answer
Answer: (c) Novelty of planning had declined
10. What did the foundation of India’s economic development rely on by the Third Five Year Plan?
(a) Economic crisis resolution
(b) Excitement with planning
(c) Acute economic crisis
(d) Long-term planning and intervention
Answer
Answer: (d) Long-term planning and intervention
11. What marked the decline of the novelty of planning in India?
(a) First Five Year Plan
(b) Second Five Year Plan
(c) Third Five Year Plan
(d) Fourth Five Year Plan
Answer
Answer: (a) First Five Year Plan
12. What did the foundation of India’s economic development rely on by the Third Five Year Plan?
(a) Economic crisis resolution
(b) Excitement with planning
(c) Acute economic crisis
(d) Long-term planning and intervention
Answer
Answer: (d) Long-term planning and intervention
13. What marked the decline of the novelty of planning in India?
(a) First Five Year Plan
(b) Second Five Year Plan
(c) Third Five Year Plan
(d) Fourth Five Year Plan
Answer
Answer: (d) Fourth Five Year Plan
14. Why did the government decide to take a ‘plan holiday’?
(a) Decline in economic development
(b) Acute economic crisis
(c) Critics’ feedback on the plans
(d) Lack of public support
Answer
Answer: (b) Acute economic crisis
15. What was the main criticism about the Fourth Five Year Plan?
(a) Lack of excitement
(b) Lack of government involvement
(c) Novelty of planning had declined
(d) Overemphasis on economic crisis
Answer
Answer: (c) Novelty of planning had declined
1. What was the main objective of the First Five Year Plan (1951–1956)?
(a) Industrial growth
(b) Democracy promotion
(c) Breaking the cycle of poverty
(d) Population control
Answer
Answer: (c) Breaking the cycle of poverty
2. What did K.N. Raj, an economist involved in drafting the plan, suggest for the initial two decades of development?
(a) Rapid development for economic growth
(b) Slow and cautious development to protect democracy
(c) No development for the first two decades
(d) Focusing only on industrial development
Answer
Answer: (b) Slow and cautious development to protect democracy
3. What sector did the First Five Year Plan mainly address?
(a) Industrial sector
(b) Education sector
(c) Agricultural sector
(d) Health sector
Answer
Answer: (c) Agricultural sector
4. What was identified as the principal obstacle in the way of agricultural growth?
(a) Lack of technology
(b) Inadequate rainfall
(c) Pattern of land distribution
(d) Lack of skilled labor
Answer
Answer: (c) Pattern of land distribution
5. What was considered the key to the country’s development in the First Five Year Plan?
(a) Industrialization
(b) Technology advancements
(c) Land reforms
(d) Population control
Answer
Answer: (c) Land reforms
6. What was one of the basic aims of the planners regarding national income?
(a) Increasing spending
(b) Reducing spending
(c) Keeping spending constant
(d) Raising the level of national income through increased savings
Answer
Answer: (d) Raising the level of national income through increased savings
7. Why did the planners seek to push savings up in the First Five Year Plan?
(a) To increase government revenue
(b) To reduce government expenditure
(c) To raise the level of national income
(d) To promote consumer spending
Answer
Answer: (c) To raise the level of national income
8. What was challenging in pushing savings up according to the passage?
(a) Low basic level of spending
(b) High basic level of spending
(c) Lack of government support
(d) Lack of public awareness
Answer
Answer: (a) Low basic level of spending
9. Until when did people’s savings rise in the first phase of the planned process?
(a) Until the end of the Second Five Year Plan
(b) Until the end of the Third Five Year Plan
(c) Until the end of the Fourth Five Year Plan
(d) Until the end of the Fifth Five Year Plan
Answer
Answer: (b) Until the end of the Third Five Year Plan
10. What happened to the proportion of savings in the country from the early 1960s to the early 1970s?
(a) It remained constant
(b) It increased consistently
(c) It dropped consistently
(d) It reached a peak
Answer
Answer: (c) It dropped consistently
1. What was the focus of the Second Five Year Plan?
(a) Education
(b) Heavy Industries
(c) Agriculture
(d) Healthcare
Answer
Answer: (b) Heavy Industries
2. Who led the team of economists and planners that drafted the Second Five Year Plan?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) P. C. Mahalanobis
(c) K.N. Raj
(d) Avadi
Answer
Answer: (b) P. C. Mahalanobis
3. What was the declared goal of the Congress party during the session held at Avadi?
(a) Capitalist society
(b) Socialist pattern of society
(c) Industrial revolution
(d) Agricultural transformation
Answer
Answer: (b) Socialist pattern of society
4. What key strategy did the government employ to protect domestic industries in the Second Five Year Plan?
(a) Export subsidies
(b) Currency devaluation
(c) Subsidies to farmers
(d) Substantial tariffs on imports
Answer
Answer: (d) Substantial tariffs on imports
5. What sector saw significant development in the public sector during this period?
(a) Education
(b) Healthcare
(c) Agriculture
(d) Electricity, railways, steel, machineries, and communication
Answer
Answer: (d) Electricity, railways, steel, machineries, and communication
6. What marked a turning point in India’s development according to the passage?
(a) Agricultural reforms
(b) Technological advancement
(c) Push for industrialization
(d) Urbanization
Answer
Answer: (c) Push for industrialization
7. What problem did India face due to being technologically backward?
(a) Overpopulation
(b) Food shortage
(c) Lack of infrastructure
(d) Economic recession
Answer
Answer: (b) Food shortage
8. What criticism did critics level against the Third Five Year Plan?
(a) Urban bias
(b) Agricultural bias
(c) Industrial bias
(d) Socialist bias
Answer
Answer: (a) Urban bias
9. What did some critics think was wrongly prioritized in the plans?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Heavy Industries
(c) Education
(d) Healthcare
Answer
Answer: (b) Heavy Industries
10. What challenge did Indian planners find difficult in the Second Five Year Plan?
(a) Technological backwardness
(b) Balancing industry and agriculture
(c) Lack of foreign exchange
(d) Lack of skilled labor
Answer
Answer: (b) Balancing industry and agriculture
11. What marked a turning point in India’s development according to the passage?
(a) Agricultural reforms
(b) Technological advancement
(c) Push for industrialization
(d) Urbanization
Answer
Answer: (c) Push for industrialization
13. Who was the leader of the team of economists and planners that drafted the Second Five Year Plan?
(a) Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) P. C. Mahalanobis
(c) K.N. Raj
(d) Avadi
Answer
Answer: (b) P. C. Mahalanobis
14. What was the declared goal of the Congress party during the session held at Avadi?
(a) Capitalist society
(b) Socialist pattern of society
(c) Industrial revolution
(d) Agricultural transformation
Answer
Answer: (b) Socialist pattern of society
15. What key strategy did the government employ to protect domestic industries in the Second Five Year Plan?
(a) Export subsidies
(b) Currency devaluation
(c) Subsidies to farmers
(d) Substantial tariffs on imports
Answer
Answer: (d) Substantial tariffs on imports
16. What sector saw significant development in the public sector during this period?
(a) Education
(b) Healthcare
(c) Agriculture
(d) Electricity, railways, steel, machineries, and communication
Answer
Answer: (d) Electricity, railways, steel, machineries, and communication
17. What marked a turning point in India’s development according to the passage?
(a) Agricultural reforms
(b) Technological advancement
(c) Push for industrialization
(d) Urbanization
Answer
Answer: (c) Push for industrialization
18. What problem did India face due to being technologically backward?
(a) Overpopulation
(b) Food shortage
(c) Lack of infrastructure
(d) Economic recession
Answer
Answer: (b) Food shortage
19. What criticism did critics level against the Third Five Year Plan?
(a) Urban bias
(b) Agricultural bias
(c) Industrial bias
(d) Socialist bias
Answer
Answer: (a) Urban bias
20. What did some critics think was wrongly prioritized in the plans?
(a) Agriculture
(b) Heavy Industries
(c) Education
(d) Healthcare
Answer
Answer: (b) Heavy Industries
1. What is the common theme depicted on the stamps issued between 1955 and 1968?
(a) Historic landmarks
(b) Natural landscapes
(c) Planned development
(d) Cultural heritage
Answer
Answer: (c) Planned development
2. Which of the following is NOT depicted on the stamps?
(a) Bhakra Dam
(b) Wheat Revolution
(c) Gauhati Refinery
(d) Jal Nagari
Answer
Answer: (d) Jal Nagari
3. What do the stamps reflect about the time period they were issued?
(a) Technological advancements
(b) Agricultural practices
(c) Vision of planned development
(d) Cultural diversity
Answer
Answer: (c) Vision of planned development
1. What are the villagers protesting against in Orissa?
(a) Construction of a dam
(b) Establishment of a steel plant
(c) Implementation of a water project
(d) Expansion of a power station
Answer
Answer: (b) Establishment of a steel plant
2. Where did the villagers stage their demonstration?
(a) Outside the Rashtriya Yuva Sangathan office
(b) Outside the Nabanirman Samiti office
(c) Outside the Korean company’s office
(d) Outside the Orissa government office
Answer
Answer: (c) Outside the Korean company’s office
3. What were the protesters demanding?
(a) Construction of more factories
(b) Expansion of the steel plant
(c) Cancellation of the memorandum of understanding
(d) Collaboration with the government
Answer
Answer: (c) Cancellation of the memorandum of understanding
4. Which gram panchayats were represented by the protesters?
(a) Dhinkia, Nuagaon, and Gadakujanga
(b) Jal Yojana, Jal Nagari, Jal Gram
(c) POSCO-India, Rashtriya Yuva Sangathan, Nabanirman Samiti
(d) Bhubaneswar, Bhadrak, Bargarh
Answer
Answer: (a) Dhinkia, Nuagaon, and Gadakujanga
5. Who organized the demonstration?
(a) The Orissa government
(b) Rashtriya Yuva Sangathan and Nabanirman Samiti
(c) POSCO-India
(d) The Hindu newspaper
Answer
Answer: (b) Rashtriya Yuva Sangathan and Nabanirman Samiti
1. How are Left and Right ideologies characterized in politics?
(a) By their stance on environmental issues
(b) By their position on social change and economic redistribution
(c) By their support for military interventions
(d) By their stance on cultural heritage
Answer
Answer: (b) By their position on social change and economic redistribution
2. What does the term “Left” typically refer to in political ideology?
(a) Supporters of free competition
(b) Advocates for market economy
(c) Those in favor of the poor and downtrodden
(d) Believers in minimal government intervention
Answer
Answer: (c) Those in favor of the poor and downtrodden
3. What does the term “Right” typically refer to in political ideology?
(a) Supporters of free competition
(b) Advocates for market economy
(c) Those in favor of the poor and downtrodden
(d) Believers in minimal government intervention
Answer
Answer: (a) Supporters of free competition
4. According to the passage, where do Left parties typically stand regarding government policies?
(a) Against government policies
(b) In favor of government policies for the benefit of the poor
(c) Supportive of military interventions
(d) Opposed to economic progress
Answer
Answer: (b) In favor of government policies for the benefit of the poor
5. According to the passage, what do Right parties typically believe in regarding economic progress?
(a) Government intervention is necessary
(b) Free competition and market economy ensure progress
(c) Both Left and Right ideologies are equally valid
(d) Cultural heritage is more important than economic progress
Answer
Answer: (b) Free competition and market economy ensure progress
1. When was the Planning Commission set up?
(a) 1947
(b) 1950
(c) 1960
(d) 1975
Answer
Answer: (b) 1950
2. What is the nature of the Planning Commission’s role?
(a) Legislative
(b) Executive
(c) Advisory
(d) Judicial
Answer
Answer: (c) Advisory
3. When did the NITI Aayog replace the Planning Commission?
(a) 2000
(b) 2010
(c) 2015
(d) 2020
Answer
Answer: (c) 2015
4. What was the scope of work defined for the Planning Commission in the resolution?
(a) To enforce Fundamental Rights
(b) To control the economy
(c) To promote the welfare of the people
(d) To interpret the Constitution
Answer
Answer: (c) To promote the welfare of the people
5. When did the NITI Aayog come into existence?
(a) 1947
(b) 1955
(c) 2010
(d) 2015
Answer
Answer: (d) 2015
6. According to the passage, what did the NITI Aayog replace?
(a) Supreme Court
(b) Election Commission
(c) Planning Commission
(d) Reserve Bank of India
Answer
Answer: (c) Planning Commission
7. What did the resolution setting up the Planning Commission mention about the economic system?
(a) It should be completely controlled by the government
(b) It should result in the concentration of wealth
(c) It should be based on free competition and market economy
(d) It should not result in the concentration of wealth
Answer
Answer: (d) It should not result in the concentration of wealth
8. When did the Planning Commission resolutions become effective?
(a) Automatically after drafting
(b) After approval by the Union Cabinet
(c) Immediately upon release
(d) After being ratified by the President
Answer
Answer: (b) After approval by the Union Cabinet
9. What did the resolution emphasize regarding the ownership and control of material resources?
(a) It should be completely government-controlled
(b) It should be in the hands of a few individuals
(c) It should be distributed for the common good
(d) It should be solely controlled by private businesses
Answer
Answer: (c) It should be distributed for the common good
10. What was the primary reason for replacing the Planning Commission with NITI Aayog?
(a) To enhance government control over the economy
(b) To promote the welfare of the people more effectively
(c) To align with the objectives of the Directive Principles
(d) To eliminate advisory roles in the government
Answer
Answer: (c) To align with the objectives of the Directive Principles
1. Who is P.C. Mahalanobis?
(a) Politician
(b) Scientist and statistician
(c) Industrialist
(d) Economist
Answer
Answer: (b) Scientist and statistician
2. What is the significance of P.C. Mahalanobis in the context of Indian planning?
(a) Founder of the Indian Statistical Institute
(b) Architect of the First Five Year Plan
(c) Advocate for agrarian reforms
(d) Pioneer in environmental sciences
Answer
Answer: (a) Founder of the Indian Statistical Institute
3. What role did P.C. Mahalanobis play in economic planning?
(a) Supporter of slow-paced development
(b) Advocate for privatization
(c) Architect of the Second Plan
(d) Critic of public sector involvement
Answer
Answer: (c) Architect of the Second Plan