The Community Development Programme was initiated primarily to :

• Bring in devlopment among people by raising the literacy level.

• Increase the control of the masses over the locally available resources.

• Bring out overall development of the villages through self-help.

• Bring out development of urban facilities.

According to HUfschidt , bring out the chronological sequence in the main phases of development of Regional Planning in the last 100 years of its history :

(i) Cultural Regionalism Orientation

(ii) Metropolitan Orientation

(iii) Natural Resource Orienation

(iv) Regional Science Orientation

• iii , ii , iv , i

• i , iii , iv , ii

• iv , i , iii , ii

• iii , i , iv , ii

43.

Who has defined that "that is only one region - the surface of the Earth on which mankind finds its home" ?

• Minshull

• Vidal de la Blache

• Fenneman

• Herbertson

The entire planning technique in India had been based on the model prepared by :

• P.C. Mahalanobis

• Fieldman

• Domar

• V.M. Dandekar

Regional Developmen is a 

• Single functional approach

• Multi-functional approach

• Place Prosperity

• Rationalisation of population distribution

Preparation of Sub-plan on regional basis was taken up :

• Fourth plan

• Fifth plan

• Sixth plan

• Seventh plan

Who among the following presented a framework of economic regions of different orders following the soviet concept of economic regions and production specialisation :

• P.sengupta

• V. Nath

• S.P. Chatterjee

• Bhatt and Prakasa Rao

ASSERTION (A) : A planning region should be large enough to contain a range of resources , conditions and attributes so to serve a desired degree of economic viability.

REASON (R) : Its resource position should be such that a satisfactory level of product combination for consumption and for exchange would be feasible.

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanantion of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is true , but (R) is false.

• (A) is false , but (R) is true

ASSERTION (A) : There are regional disparities in the spatial organisation of economy.

REASON (R) : Interactions among inherent factors in economic activities affect the texture of spatial organisations.

In the context of the above two statements, which one of the following is correct ?

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanantion of (A).

• Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

• (A) is true , but (R) is false.

• (A) is false , but (R) is true.

• a-iv , b-iii , c-ii , d-i

• a-iv , b-ii , c-iii , d-i

• a-iii , b-iv , c-i , d-ii

• a-ii , b-iii , c-iv , d-i