Political Science · Political Processes in India
UGC NET Oct 2020 Political Science
The Mahalanobis Model mainly emphasis on
ASmall scale industries
BHeavy industrialisation ✓ Correct
CAgricultural development
DTechnological advancement
Correct answer: (B) Heavy industrialisation — The Mahalanobis Model mainly emphasises heavy industrialisation.
Explanation
★The Mahalanobis Model mainly emphasises heavy industrialisation.
★It was designed by the statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis and underpinned India's Second Five Year Plan, which ran from 1956 to 1961.
★The model gave priority to capital goods and basic heavy industries on the logic that they would raise the long-run rate of growth.
★It led to large public-sector steel plants at Bhilai, Durgapur and Rourkela and a strong state role in industry.
★This stress on heavy industry contrasts with later emphasis on small-scale industry, agriculture and services.
★For NET, link the Second Plan with the Mahalanobis model and heavy industry, and the First Plan with the Harrod-Domar model and agriculture.
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