1. Which of these statements about the Bombay Plan is incorrect?
(a) It was a blueprint for India’s economic future.
(b) It supported state-ownership of industry.
(c) It was made by some leading industrialists.
(d) It supported strongly the idea of planning.n
2. Which of the following ideas did not form part of the early phase of
India’s development policy?
(a) Planning (c) Cooperative Farming
(b) Liberalisation (d) Self sufficiency
3. The idea of planning in India was drawn from
(a) the Bombay plan (c) Gandhian vision of society
(b) experiences of the Soviet (d) Demand by peasant bloc countries organisations
i. b and d only iii. a and b only
ii. d and c only iv. all the above
4. Match the following.
(a) Charan Singh i. Industrialisation
(b) P C Mahalanobis ii. Zoning
(c) Bihar Famine iii. Farmers
(d) Verghese Kurien iv. Milk Cooperatives
5. What were the major differences in the approach towards development
at the time of Independence? Has the debate been resolved?
6. What was the major thrust of the First Five Year Plan? In which ways
did the Second Plan differ from the first one?
7. Read the following passage and answer the questions below:
“In the early years of Independence, two contradictory tendencies
were already well advanced inside the Congress party. On the one