INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

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Consider the following statements regarding Bombay plan of 1944:
A
1 only
B
2 only
C
Both 1 and 2
D
Neither 1 nor 2
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -It was blueprint for India’s economic future. Explanation: Bombay Plan was a joint initiative of some big industrialists of setting up a planned economy for the country, because every investor or industrialist prefers an open economy where state control is minimum.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bombay Plan could not be regarded as the blueprint for India’s economic future as it talked of setting up of a body that would bring about planned development in India and that state must take a major role in industrial and other economic investments.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Bombay Plan was the economic plan for India proposed by a group of industrialists and technocrats in January 1944. A group of Indian industrialists issued A Plan for Economic Development, wherein, there was a strong endorsement of state economic intervention and planning.

Detailed explanation-4: -The plan, published in 1944/1945 by eight leading Indian industrialists, proposed state intervention in the economic development of the nation after independence from the United Kingdom (which took place in 1947).

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