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Discuss in detail the main issues of development planning in mixed economy like India?

  • UPSC 2020
  • Visions of Social Change in India

A mixed economy rests on three features — a positive economic role for the state, coexistence of public and private ownership, and a deliberate blend of capitalist and socialist elements. India adopted it through the Industrial Policy Resolutions of 1948 and 1956, the latter following the Congress's acceptance of a "socialistic pattern of society" at…

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  • The public–private boundary
  • Controls that produced rents
  • Centralisation in a federal polity
  • Technocracy against participation
  • The cost of the "temples of modern India"
  • Regional imbalance and implementation deficit
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