Before the inception of the First Five year Plan, which among the following Plans were initiated in India? 1. Bombay Plan 2. Peoples Plan 3. Sarvodaya Plan 4. Gandhian Plan
- (a)1 and 2 only
- (b)1 and 3 only
- (c)3 and 4 only
- (d)1, 2, 3 and 4
Correct — D, 1, 2, 3 and 4. All four blueprints were drawn up before the First Five Year Plan began in 1951: the Bombay Plan (1944) by a group of leading industrialists, the People's Plan (1945) by M.N. Roy, the Gandhian Plan (1944) by S.N. Agarwal, and the Sarvodaya Plan (1950) by Jayaprakash Narayan. Each proposed a different development path, but every one predates the First Plan — so all four are included.
- (a)1 and 2 only — This leaves out the Gandhian Plan (1944) and the Sarvodaya Plan (1950), both of which were also floated before the First Plan.
- (b)1 and 3 only — This omits the People's Plan (1945, M.N. Roy) and the Gandhian Plan (1944), which also predate 1951.
- (c)3 and 4 only — This omits the Bombay Plan (1944) and the People's Plan (1945) — the two earliest of the set.
Well before the Planning Commission (1950) and the First Five Year Plan (1951-56), several private and ideological development blueprints circulated in India. The best-known are the Bombay Plan (1944, by industrialists), the People's Plan (1945, M.N. Roy), the Gandhian Plan (1944, S.N. Agarwal) and the Sarvodaya Plan (1950, Jayaprakash Narayan). They differed sharply — capitalist, socialist, and Gandhian-decentralist — but all preceded official planning.
The trap is to think only the industrialists' Bombay Plan or only 'official' plans count. In fact all four named plans predate the First Plan, so the correct code is 'all four'. Remember the Sarvodaya Plan (1950) squeaks in just before the First Plan launched in April 1951.
- Bombay Plan (1944) — drafted by eight leading industrialists, including J.R.D. Tata and G.D. Birla.
- People's Plan (1945) — put forward by M.N. Roy for the Indian Federation of Labour; stressed agriculture and nationalisation.
- Gandhian Plan (1944) — by S.N. (Shriman Narayan) Agarwal; based on villages and cottage industries.
- Sarvodaya Plan (1950) — by Jayaprakash Narayan; Gandhian/Sarvodaya ideals of decentralised self-reliance.
All four were initiated before the First Five Year Plan (1951-56).
- Matching each plan to the right author (Bombay = industrialists, People's = M.N. Roy, Gandhian = S.N. Agarwal, Sarvodaya = JP).
- Visvesvaraya's 1934 book is the earliest 'plan' but is separate from these four.
Author-to-plan matching, or 'which plans preceded the First FYP'.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The 'Bombay Plan' (1944) was prepared by:
- (a)The Planning Commission
- (b)A group of leading industrialists
- (c)M.N. Roy
- (d)Mahatma Gandhi
Answer(b) A group of leading industrialists (Tata, Birla and others).
- practice — not a real PYQ
The 'People's Plan' (1945) was authored by:
- (a)M.N. Roy
- (b)S.N. Agarwal
- (c)Jayaprakash Narayan
- (d)M. Visvesvaraya
Answer(a) M.N. Roy — for the Indian Federation of Labour.