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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Planned development in a democracy.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Planned development means directing resources towards goals fixed in advance; democracy means accepting that those goals may be rejected at the next election. India after 1947 attempted both at once — universal adult franchise alongside centralised five-year planning. The combination was without precedent, since planning elsewhere had been the work of authoritarian states.

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  • The Indian design
  • The structural tension
  • Democratising the plan
  • Assessment
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