planning economic development & five year plans section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

JNNURM is a huge mission that relates primarily to development in the context of urban conglomerates focusing on Indian cities.

JNNURM aims at creating ‘economically productive, efficient, equitable and responsive Cities’ by a strategy of upgrading the social and economic infrastructure in cities, provision of Basic Services to Urban Poor (BSUP) and wide-ranging urban sector reforms to strengthen municipal governance in accordance with the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992.

Answer: (a)

Mahalanobis committee is known as “ Distribution of Income and Levels of Living” and it was set up in 1960 to find an answer to the question that who was benefitted by the first and second five year plans, as there was no substantial increase in the per capita income of the people.

Answer: (a)

According to The National Food for Work Programme, food subsidy should be better targeted through targeted public distribution system and specific programmes for the poor like Food for Work Programme.

The National Food for Work Programme was launched on 14 November 2004 in 150 of the most backward districts of India with the objective of generating supplementary wage employment. The Planning commission is not a constitutional body.

Answer: (a)

Union Government of India had announced formation of NITI Aayog on 1 January 2015.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (d)

The NHM’s key objective is to develop horticulture to the maximum potential and to augment the production of all horticultural products(fruits, vegetables, flowers, plantation crops, spices, medicinal aromatic plants).