Topic: Planning and Economic Development
With reference to Nehruvian perspective of planning and economic development, examine how the early phase of economic planning in India has laid the foundation of modern India’s economic growth.
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Discuss the impact of liberalization on agriculture sector in India. (150 words)
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What has been the political fallout of the Green Revolution in India? Explain.
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What explains India’s modest improvements in social development outcomes even as the rate of growth has accelerated since the initiation of economic reforms?
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The blueprint of Gram Swargaj is the key to understand the Gandhian perspective on planning. Discuss.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 Gandhian planning ≠ conventional centralised/industrial → self-sufficient village as the blueprint → begin here to read his planningRoute 2 Gram Swaraj…
Land reforms programmes led to some constitutional amendments. Comment.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 land reforms to fix unequal agrarian structure at Independence → grounded in Art 39(b)/39(c) → challenged under fundamental right to property…
Land reforms have failed in the eradication of rural poverty. Comment.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 land reform = chief instrument of redistributive justice → charge of failure holds, but cause is implementation, not designRoute 2 four…
In the post-liberalization era, Indian politics is moving from ascriptive politics to developmental politics.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 liberalisation brought development to the centre (jobs, growth, FDI, infrastructure, welfare) → shift real but partialRoute 2 earlier axis = caste…
What do you understand by Green Revolution? Do you think that a Second Green Revolution is needed to adequately address the agrarian challenges in contemporary India? Examine.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 GR = HYV-seed + input + assured-price package (mid-1960s), Swaminathan/Borlaug → ‘begging bowl’ to ‘grain bowl’, self-sufficiency → but gains narrow,…
Examine the various causes of agrarian crisis in India.
Flow snapshot — how the answer movesIntro routesRoute 1 visible distress (suicides, marches, migration) → crisis of profitabilityRoute 2 farming no longer viable → causes structural & policy-driven, not naturalBody…
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