Question

What measures were taken to bring in socio economic change during the initial years after independenc

Answer 1

1) Social and economic changes are at the top of the agenda of modern India.
2) The Constituent Assembly had called for social, economic and political justice and equality of status and opportunity; it put social and economic change at highest priority.
3) The Planning Commission was setup within a month of the inauguration of the new constitution.
4) For Nehru planning was not only good economics but good politics too. He hoped that planned development would dissolve the divisions of caste and religion as well as other disruptive and disintegrative tendencies and help India to emerge as a strong and modern nation.
5) The First Five Year Plan focused on agriculture and stressed on the need and the provision of social services.
6) The strategy favored by Nehru included three components 
a) Land reforms
b) Agriculture cooperatives
c) Local self government

Answer 2

Explanation:

1. socio-economic changes are at the top of agenda of

modern India.

2 the constituent assembly had called for socio-economic and political justice and equality of states.

3. the planning commission was set up within a month of the inauguration of the new constitution.