Politics of Planned Development
Shortly after Independence, Indian leaders agreed that poverty and inequality could not be removed without deliberate planning, and this chapter opens with that debate in NCERT Politics in India Since Independence, Chapter 3. It traces the creation of the Planning Commission in 1950, the choice of five-year plans, and the clash between the Bombay Plan of big business, the Gandhian stress on villages, and the Nehru-Mahalanobis emphasis on heavy industry and the public sector. The chapter follows the first three plans, the Green Revolution turn, and asks what planning achieved and where it fell
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