2023 · Q25
The focus of the Second Five Year Plan was:
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- Aestablishment of a self-reliant and self-generating economy with emphasis on agriculture.
- Brapid industrialization with emphasis on the development of basic and heavy industries.
- Cremoval of poverty and attainment of self-reliance.
- Dacceleration of food-grain production and increase in employment opportunities and overall productivity.
Explanation
The Second Five Year Plan (1956-61), built on the Mahalanobis model, gave top priority to rapid industrialisation with emphasis on basic and heavy industries such as steel, machine-building and chemicals, aiming at a self-reliant industrial base. Agricultural emphasis characterised the First Plan, poverty removal the Fifth Plan, and food-grain acceleration the Seventh Plan. Hence option B.