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With reference to Peruvian experience of planning and economic development, examine how the early phase of economic planning in India has laid the foundation for future development.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 15 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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Early Indian planning (1951 to the mid-1960s) rested on a Nehruvian wager: a poor, agrarian, colonial economy could become self-reliant only if the state built the capacity to make machines and the institutions a modern economy needs. Jawaharlal Nehru supplied the vision and P. C. Mahalanobis the model. Its claim to have founded later growth…

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