Indian Economy › Economic Planning & Five-Year Plans – UPSC Prelims PYQs

With reference to India’s Five-Year Plans, which of the following statements is/are correct?

1. From the Second Five-Year Plan, there was a determined thrust towards substitution of basic and capital good industries.
2. The Fourth Five-Year Plan adopted the objective of correcting the earlier trend of increased concentration of wealth and economic power.
3. In the Fifth Five-Year Plan, for the first time, the financial sector was included as an integral part of the Plan.

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Which of the following has/have occurred in India after its liberalization of economic policies in 1991 ?

1. Share of agriculture in GDP increased enormously.
2. Share of India's exports in world trade increased.
3. FDI inflows increased.
4. India's foreign exchange reserves increased enormously.

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The Government of India has established NITI Aayog to replace the

The main objective of the 12th Five-Year Plan is

Which of the following are associated with 'Planning' in India?

1. The Finance Commission
2. The National Development Council
3. The Union Ministry of Rural Development
4. The Union Ministry of Urban Development
5. The Parliament

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Which of the following can aid in furthering the Government's objective of inclusive growth?

1. Promoting Self-Help Groups
2. Promoting Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
3. Implementing the Right to Education Act

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Inclusive growth as enunciated in the Eleventh Five Year Plan does NOT include one of the following:

In the context of India’s Five Year Plans, a shift in the pattern of industrialization, with lower emphasis on heavy industries and more on infrastructure begins in

During which Five Year Plan was the Emergency clamped, new elections took place and the Janata Party was elected ?

Consider the following statements regarding Indian Planning :

1. The Second Five-Year Plan emphasised on the establishment of heavy industries.
2. The Third Five-Year Plan introduced the concept of import substitution as a strategy for industrialisation.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

Consider the following statements:

1. The highest deciding body for planning in India is the Planning Commission of India.
2. The Secretary of the Planning Commission of India is also the Secretary of the National Development Council.
3. The Constitution includes economic and social planning in the Concurrent List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

A Five Year Plan in India is finally approved by the

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.

Which one of the following is true in this regard?

The Sixth and the Eighth Five-Year Plans covered the period 1980-85 and 1992-97 respectively. The Seventh Five-Year Plan covered the period

Which one of the following is correct regarding stabilization and structural adjustment as two components of the new economic policy adopted in India?

The Eighth Five-Year Plan is different from the earlier ones. The critical difference lies in the fact that

Which one of the following Five-Year Plans recognised human development as the core of all developmental efforts?

What is the annual growth rate aimed at in the Eighth Five-Year Plan?

The largest source of financing the public sector outlay of the Eighth Five-Year Plan comes from