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The five year plans - Test Set 3

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  1. Question 1

    Panchayats:
    1. Are authorized to levy taxes only
    2. Have no power to levy taxes
    3. Are entitled to Government grants only
    4. Are authorized to levy and collect taxes, duties tolls and fees
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  2. Question 2

    Planning Commission is a:
    1. Political body
    2. Statutory body
    3. Non-political body
    4. Quasi-political body
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  3. Question 3

    How many annual plans have been completed till the commencement of the 10th plan?
    1. Three
    2. Four
    3. One
    4. Six
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  4. Question 4

    The final approval to the draft Five Year Plan is given by the:
    1. Parliament
    2. President
    3. Planning Commission
    4. National Development Council
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  5. Question 5

    The Mahalanobis strategy of Indian Planning gave emphasis to the growth of:
    1. Agricultural sector
    2. Services sector
    3. Heavy Capital Goods Industrial sector
    4. Small Scale Village Industrial sector
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  6. Question 6

    National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme gives right to employment for:
    1. 70 days a year
    2. 200 days a year
    3. 100 days a year
    4. 30 days a year
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  7. Question 7

    Planning Commission of India is a:
    1. Statutory Body
    2. A department of Central Government
    3. A department of State Government
    4. A subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India
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  8. Question 8

    Plan finance creates increase of money supply if there is:
    1. Increase in taxes
    2. Increase in loan from the Reserve Bank of India
    3. Increase in loan from commercial banks
    4. Increase in loan from general public
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  9. Question 9

    The first five year plan in India was introduced in the year –
    1. 1947
    2. 1950
    3. 1951
    4. 1955
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  10. Question 10

    Heavy industrialisation was introduced in India in the –
    1. First Five Year Plan
    2. Second Five Year Plan
    3. Third Five Year Plan
    4. Fourth Five Year Plan
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  11. Question 11

    The period of Annual plans 1966-69, is usually regarded as:
    1. Temporary plan period
    2. Plan holiday
    3. A period of cessation of all plan activities
    4. Plan rest period
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  12. Question 12

    During the Ninth-Five Year plan the incremental capital output ratio has been assumed to be:
    1. 3.5
    2. 4.08
    3. 4.5
    4. 5
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  13. Question 13

    The Second Five-Year Plan was based on:
    1. The Gandhian Strategy
    2. The Mahalonobis Strategy
    3. German Historical School Strategy
    4. None of the above
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  14. Question 14

    Economic Reforms and liberalization were introduced in Indian planning in the -
    1. 1960s
    2. 1990s
    3. 1970s
    4. 1980s
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  15. Question 15

    The concept of planning was first approached in India by -
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. Subhas Chandra Bose
    3. M. Visvesvaraya
    4. Ardeshir Dalal
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  16. Question 16

    The Planning Commission was appointed in March 1950 under the chairmanship of -
    1. Jawaharlal Nehru
    2. P.C. Mahalonobis
    3. C.D. Deshmukh
    4. None of the above
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  17. Question 17

    In the Ninth-Five Year Plan the growth rate in the GDP per annum is to be:
    1. 5.5%
    2. 6%
    3. 6.5%
    4. 7%
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  18. Question 18

    Under the chairmanship of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Planning Commission was formed in the year:
    1. 1949
    2. 1950
    3. 1951
    4. 1952
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  19. Question 19

    Almost same importance was given to agriculture and industry in the:
    1. First Plan
    2. Third Plan
    3. Fourth Plan
    4. Fifth Plan
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  20. Question 20

    Indian leader accepted planning from the experience of ______
    1. China
    2. Czechoslovakia
    3. Germany
    4. Russia
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