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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2018 — General Studies · Question 70 of 200

Q70
Indian National MovementRise of Nationalism & the Congress
Who was the President of National Planning Committee, set up by the Congress?
  1. a.Asaf Ali
  2. b.Jawahar Lal Nehru
  3. c.Tej Bahadur Sapru
  4. d.Rajendra Prasad

Answer: (B) Jawahar Lal Nehru

The National Planning Committee was set up in 1938 on the initiative of Subhas Chandra Bose, then Congress President (Haripura), with Jawaharlal Nehru as chairman and K. T. Shah as secretary. Other landmarks of planning before independence: Visvesvaraya's 'Planned Economy for India' (1934), the Bombay Plan of industrialists (1944), the Gandhian Plan of S. N. Agarwal (1944) and the People's Plan of M. N. Roy (1945).

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