Political Science · Indian Polity
The Mahalanobis model was the basis of which Five Year Plan?
AFirst
BSecond ✓ Correct
CFifth
DEleventh
Correct answer: (B) Second — The Mahalanobis model was the basis of the Second Five Year Plan.
Explanation
★The Mahalanobis model was the basis of the Second Five Year Plan.
★The Second Plan ran from 1956 to 1961 and stressed rapid industrialisation.
★It focused on heavy and basic industries in the public sector.
★It was designed by P.C. Mahalanobis, then chief statistician of the government.
★The model aimed to build a strong capital-goods base for self-reliant growth.
★It shaped India's planned, state-led path of industrial development.
★So the Mahalanobis model belongs to the Second Five Year Plan.
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