Q. Which of the following Five Year Plans followed the Mahalanobis model and felt that agriculture could be accorded lower priority?
Explanation:
The Second Plan focused on the development of the public sector and "rapid Industrialisation". The plan followed the Mahalanobis model, an economic development model developed by the Indian statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in 1953. It advocated Socialist patterns of society as its goal. Second plan was conceived in an atmosphere of economic stability. It was felt agriculture could be accorded lower priority as compared to industrialisation.