Question

Community Development Programme was launched during the period of which five year plan?

• A. First Five Year Plan
• B. Third Five Year Plan
• C. Fifth Five Year Plan
• D. Sixth Five Year Plan

Answer 1

Answer:

A. First Five Year Plan

Community Development Programme

• It was launched in 1952, during India's First Five Year Plan (1951-56)

• It was one of India's earliest rural development initiatives after independence

• The program aimed at all-round development of rural areas with people's participation

• It focused on agriculture, education, health, transport, and developing local self-government institutions

• The program was inspired by the Etawah Pilot Project in Uttar Pradesh

• It promoted the concept of "self-help" among rural communities

• The program established a three-tier Panchayati Raj system to decentralize planning and implementation

• It laid the foundation for many subsequent rural development schemes in India