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Question
Which of the following were the main arguments in the debate that ensued between industrialisation and agricultural development at the time of the Second Five Year Plan?
Options
The Second Five Year Plan emphasised the industry in place of agriculture or rural India.
J. C. Kumarappa, a Gandhian Economist proposed an alternative blueprint to emphasise rural industrialization.
Bharatiya Lok Daj leader, Chaudhary Charan Singh also commented that the planning leads to creation of prosperity in Urban and industrial sections at the cost of rural welfare.
All the above
Solution
All the above
Explanation:
During the period of the Second Five-Year Plan, there were some heated debates about the importance of agriculture vs industry.
1. In place of agricultural or rural India, the Second Five-Year Plan emphasised industrialization.
2. A Gandhian economist, J.C. Kumarappa, suggested an alternate design that emphasised rural industrialization.
3. Chaudhary Charan Singh, a leader of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, has stated that the planning is causing prosperity in the urban and industrial sectors at the expense of rural welfare. Others argued that poverty could not be remedied without a growth in the industrial sector:
- India's plans did not include an agriculture strategy to increase food grain production.
- It also proposed community development programs and spent substantial sums on an irrigation project, and the failure was not due to policy failure, but rather to policy non-implementation due to the politics of land ownership.
- Furthermore, they claimed that even if the government had spent more money on agriculture, the tremendous problem of rural poverty would not have been remedied.