Who is the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission?

• Prime Minister
• Finance Minister
• Commerce Minister
• None of the above

    The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission: [UP PCS 1994]

• is the Prime Minister
• is the Planning Minister
• holds the rank of a cabinet minister
• is an economist of repute

    Who was the first Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission of India?

• Shri Jawaharlal Nehru
• Rajendra Prasad
• Shri T.Krishnamachari
• Shri C.Rajagopalachari

Which of the following gives an accurate measurement of economic development through Five Year Plans?

• Development of education and health services
• Development of railways and roadways
• Rise in national income and per capita income
• Development of industrial towns and industrial estates

    In India, the Public Sector is most dominant in : [IAS 1993]

• transport
• steel production
• commercial banking
• organised term-lending financial institutions

  The first attempt to initiate economic planning in India was made by:

• Balwantrai Mehta
• Vallabhbhai Patel
• Visvesvaraya
• Jawaharlal Nehru

     The decentralisation system was recommended by :

• Rajagopalachari
• B. Kripalan
• Balwant Rai Mehta
• Ashok Mehta

   The main objective of First Five-year Plan was:

• industrial growth
• economic growth
• development of agriculture including irrigation and power projects
• self-reliance

    India had a plan holiday: [CPO AC 2003]

• after the China-India War of 1962
• after the drought of 1966
• after the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971
• after the India-Pakistan War in 1965

    Rolling plan was designed for the period: [IAS 2003]

(a)   1978-83

(b)   1980-85

(c)    1985-90

(d)    1974-97

    ‘The strategy of Rolling plan was adopted during the Prime Ministership of: [Railways 1994]

• Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Indira Gandhi
• Morarji Desai
• Rajiv Gandhi

    A rolling plan was a plan for:

• one year
• three years
• five years
• year to year basis