planning economic development & five year plans section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Question : 1

Which of the following programmes is specially directed towards helping women in difficult circumstances or in distress?

a) Swayamsiddha

b) Swadhar

c) Rashtriya Mahila Kosh

d) Mahila Samriddhi Yojana

Question : 2

In which of the following Five Year Plan, the High Yielding Varieties Programme (HYVP) was started in India?

a) Second Five Year Plan

b) Third Five Year Plan

c) First Five Year Plan

d) Fourth Five Year Plan

Question : 3

Which Indian plan ensured high growth rate as compared with targeted growth rate ?

a) Fourth Plan

b) Fifth Plan

c) Eighth Plan

d) Second Plan

Question : 4

The second five year plan was based on

a) Nehruvian Model

b) P.C. Mahalnobis Model

c) None of these

d) Harro-Domar Model

Question : 5

How would the size of the labour force and the rate of unemployment be affected if people retrenched from their jobs did not actively seek employment?

a) The labour force would be smaller and the unemployment rate would be higher.

b) The labour force would be smaller and the unemployment rate would be lower.

c) The labour force would be smaller and there would be no change in the unemployment rate.

d) There would be no change in the labour force and the unemployment rate would be higher.

Question : 6

The planning process in the industrial sector in India has assumed a relatively less important position in the nineties as compared to that in the earlier period.

a) The nation’s priorities have shifted away from industrial development to rural development

b) With the advent of liberalisation, industrial investments / developments have largely been placed within the domain of private and multinational sector

c) The focus of planning has shifted to sectors like human, resource development, infrastructure, population control and welfare

d) With markets assuming a central place, the role of central planning in many sector has been rendered redundant