The planning process in the industrial sector in India has assumed a relatively less important position in the nineties as compares to that in the earlier period. Which one of the following is not true in this regard ?

With the advent of liberalisation, industrial investments/ development have largely been placed within the domain of private and multinational sectors.

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With markets assuming a central place, the role of central planning in many sectors has been rendered redundant.

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The focus of planning has shifted to sectors like human resource development infrastructure, population control and welfare.

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The nation's priorities have shifted away from industrial development to rural development.

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Solution

The correct option is B The focus of planning has shifted to sectors like human resource development infrastructure, population control and welfare.
This has been the basic change in the process of planning during the reform era. Planning has not lost its relevance but it has gone for its definition as such.

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Q. 77. The Planning Commission was established in 1950 through a Government resolution to formulate long-term development Plans and to recommend them to the Union Cabinet. In framing its recommendations, the Commission has to act in close understanding and consultation with the ministries of the Central government and the governments of the States. The responsibility for policy decisions and implementation rests with the Central and State governments. Many have regarded and some still regard, that the Indian Plans are modelled on Soviet-type "command" planning. This is true only to the extent that there was considerable emphasis, particularly in the Second and Third Plans, on creation of a heavy industrial base under the auspices of the State. Under the aggressive intellectual leadership of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis and a few other technical experts of the Commission, this objective was given a pride of place in development planning. Subsequently, as a result of severe difficulties, higher priority was accorded to agriculture. The Industrial policy resolutions of 1948 and 1956 provided the basic framework of industrial development and regulation. The Industrial policy Resolution of 1948 envisaged careful planning and integrated effort and that a progressively increased role will be assumed by the Central and State governments in the process of economic growth and in industrial development in particular, by the public sector within a mixed economy. It demarcated industries between the public and private sectors, providing for exclusive monopoly of the basic and infrastructural industries to the former. The Industrial policy Resolution of 1956 gave priority to development of heavy industries and machine-making industries, expansion of public sector, besides promoting the co-operative sector.
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