Q. Who took initiative as the President of Indian National Congress to constitute the first National Planning Committee under Indian National Congress?
Solution:
- The first attempt to develop a national plan for India came up in 1938.
- In 1938, Subhas Chandra Bose succeeded Nehru as the President of the Indian National Congress and presided over the 51st session at Haripura. In his presidential address, he spoke of the planned economic development of independent India on socialistic lines.
- In that year, Congress President Subhash Chandra Bose had set up a National Planning Committee with Jawaharlal Nehru as its president.
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