Q10. Under the Tenth Plan, which sector had the highest planned outlay share?
[UPPSC PCS Mains 2005]
(A) Agriculture and allied sectors
(B) Social services
(C) Transport
(D) Energy
Answer: (D) Energy
Explanation: Energy accounted for the largest share of the Tenth Plan’s projected sectoral outlay among these options, ahead of social services and transport. Power-sector investment was considered essential for supporting industrial output, infrastructure and broader economic growth.
Q9. Which statements about the former Planning Commission are correct:
(1) it was not in the Constitution;
(2) members had no fixed tenure;
(3) no specific qualifications were prescribed?
[Jharkhand PSC Prelims 2003]
(A) Statement 1 only
(B) Statements 1 and 2 only
(C) Statements 2 and 3 only
(D) All three
Answer: (D) All three
Explanation: The Planning Commission was an executive advisory body, not a constitutional institution. Its members had no constitutionally fixed terms or prescribed educational qualifications. These characteristics distinguished it from commissions whose formation and qualifications are specifically governed by law.
Q8. In which year did the Tenth Five-Year Plan end?
[RAS/RTS Prelims 2003]
(A) 2005
(B) 2006
(C) 2007
(D) 2008
Answer: (C) 2007
Explanation: The Tenth Five-Year Plan was implemented from 2002 to 2007. Its formal end year was therefore 2007. It aimed at accelerated development and included specified benchmarks for growth and human-development indicators.
Q7. What years did the Tenth Five-Year Plan cover?
[Jharkhand PCS Prelims 2003]
(A) 2002–2007
(B) 2001–2006
(C) 2000–2005
(D) 2003–2008
Answer: (A) 2002–2007
Explanation: India’s Tenth Plan began in 2002 and concluded in 2007. It followed the Ninth Plan, whose five-year cycle ended in 2002. Its policy focus included GDP growth, poverty reduction and improved social indicators.
Q6. In which legislative list does economic and social planning appear?
[UP Lower Subordinate Prelims 2002]
(A) State List
(B) Union List
(C) Concurrent List
(D) Outside all lists
Answer: (C) Concurrent List
Explanation: Economic and social planning is included in the Concurrent List of the Seventh Schedule. Both Parliament and state legislatures therefore have legislative competence, subject to constitutional rules governing overlapping laws in a concurrent subject area.
Q5. What was the original targeted growth rate under India’s Tenth Five-Year Plan?
[UP Lower Subordinate Prelims 2002]
(A) 5.5%
(B) 6.5%
(C) 8.0%
(D) 8.5%
Answer: (C) 8.0%
Explanation: The Tenth Plan began with an ambition of roughly 8% average annual GDP growth during 2002–07. Although actual performance differed from the target, the 8% headline objective featured prominently in its original planning framework.
Q4. By what means was the Planning Commission originally constituted?
[UPPSC PCS Prelims 1999]
(A) Direct constitutional provision
(B) Act of Parliament
(C) Union Cabinet resolution
(D) Lok Sabha resolution
Answer: (C) Union Cabinet resolution
Explanation: The Planning Commission was created by a Cabinet resolution in March 1950. It was neither a constitutional body nor founded through a separate Act of Parliament. This executive status remained significant throughout its existence until its replacement by NITI Aayog.
Q3. Which organisation is NOT chiefly a rural-development scheme?
[MPPSC Prelims 1998]
(A) TRYSEM
(B) CRY
(C) JRY
(D) IRDP
Answer: (B) CRY
Explanation: TRYSEM, Jawahar Rozgar Yojana and the Integrated Rural Development Programme formed part of historical rural development efforts. CRY is a child-rights organisation rather than one of those government rural employment or antipoverty schemes, so it is the exception.
Q2. Who wrote the book ‘Planning and the Poor’?
[RAS/RTS Prelims 1998]
(A) D. R. Gadgil
(B) B. S. Minhas
(C) Charan Singh
(D) Rudra Dutt
Answer: (B) B. S. Minhas
Explanation: Economist B. S. Minhas authored Planning and the Poor, a work linked to Indian economic policy and poverty. The question tests the identification of a writer associated with development planning, not the government agency that administered Five-Year Plans.
Q1. The urban microenterprise, urban wage-employment and housing-upgradation components belonged to which programme?
[UPSC CSE Prelims 1997]
(A) Integrated Rural Development Programme
(B) Nehru Rozgar Yojana
(C) Jawahar Rozgar Yojana
(D) Prime Minister’s Rozgar Yojana
Answer: (B) Nehru Rozgar Yojana
Explanation: Nehru Rozgar Yojana addressed urban poverty through support for microenterprises, wage employment and shelter improvement. The other schemes had different programme structures and target populations. Its inclusion of an urban housing-upgradation component identifies the correct answer.
