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Politics of Planned Development — Political Science STD 12 Humanities — Question

CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 HumanitiesPolitical SciencePolitics of Planned Development5 Marks
Question
State the main arguments in the debate that ensued between industrialisation and agricultural development at the time of the Second Five Year Plan.
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Answer

At the time of Second Five Year Plan, some controversial issues rose in reference of relevancy of agriculture over industry.
  1. Second Five Year Plan emphasised on industry in place of agriculture or rural India.
  2. J.C. Kumarappa, a Gandhian Economist proposed an alternative blueprint to emphasise on rural industrialisation.
  3. Bharatiya Lok Dal leader, Chaudhary Charan Singh also commented that the planning leading to creation of prosperity in Urban and industrial sections at the cost of rural welfare.
Others debated that without an increase in industrial sector poverty could not be alleviated:
  1. India planning did not have an agrarian strategy to boost the production of food grains.
  2. It also proposed programmes of community development and spent large sums on irrigation project and failure was not that of policy but of its non¬implementation because of the politics of land owning classes.
  3. Besides, they also argued that every if the government had spent more money on agriculture it would not have solved the massive problem of rural poverty.

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