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Arrange the following important plans in India's planning history from the earliest to the latest.  I. FICCI Plan II. Sarvodaya Plan III. Gandhian Plan IV People's Plan

Arrange the following important plans in India's planning history from the earliest to the latest.  I. FICCI Plan II. Sarvodaya Plan III. Gandhian Plan IV People's Plan Correct Answer I, III, IV, II

The correct answer is 4 i.e. I, III, IV, II

Key Points

Plan Name Published in Comment
Visvesvaraya Plan                     1934                                                           The first blueprint of Indian planning was given by the popular civil engineer and the ex-Dewan of the Mysore state, M.Visvesvaraya. He gave a detailed account of which in his book The Planned Economy of India, published in 1934. 
FICCI Plan 1934 Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the leading organization of Indian capitalists in 1934 suggested that there is a serious need of national planning  Its then-President N.R. Sarkar proclaimed that for a backward country like India, we must formulate a comprehensive plan for economic development.
Congress Plan 1949 On the initiative of the INC president Subhash C. Bose, the National Planning Committee (NPC) was set up under the chairmanship of JL Nehru in October 1938 to develop the Indian economy. The 15-member NPC with 29 sub-committees and a total of 350 members. The final report of the NPC was published in 1949. 
Establishment of NPC led to some of the very important developments  for coordinated planning in Independent India, some of them are:
Bombay Plan 1944-45 ‘A Plan of Economic Development for India’, was popularly known as Bombay plan. It was prepared in 1944-45 by  India’s leading capitalists like Kasturbhai Lalbhai, A.D. Shroff, J.R.D. Tata, G.D. Birla, Lala Sri Ram,  John Mathai, and Avdeshir Dalal. 
Gandhian Plan 1944 Having the spirit of the Gandhian economic thinking, the Gandhian Plan was formed by Sriman Narayan Agarwal in 1944. The basis of the plan was agriculture. The industrialization in this plan largely meant promoting cottage and village-level industries. The plan emphasized on ‘decentralized economic structure’ for India with ‘self-contained villages’.
People’s Plan 1945  Radical humanist leader M.N. Roy propounded yet another plan in 1945 i.e. People’s plan. This plan was based on Marxist socialism and it advocated that people first must be provided with ‘basic necessities of life’.
Sarvodaya Plan 1950 The Sarvodaya Plan was formulated by the famous socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan in 1950. It was a sort of the first blueprint of the planned development of Independent India. The plan was inspired by Gandhian techniques  as well as the Sarvodaya concept of Acharya Vinoba Bhave, 
 

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