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Write short note with a sociological perspective: Five Year Plans

  • UPSC 2013
  • Visions of Social Change in India

Read sociologically, the Five Year Plans (from 1951) are not a sequence of output targets but a sequence of official answers to the question what kind of society should India become. Each plan declared values before it allocated money — prior determination of objectives and a proclamation of values is the defining feature of planning…

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  • The shifting social thrust
  • Who gained and who bore the cost
  • How sociologists read them
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