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In the Bihar famine year 1967, the death rate was how much higher than the next year?Read the answer and worked solution →Facing the food crisis, India accepted food aid mainly from which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Subsidised high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and guaranteed purchase prices began which programme?Read the answer and worked solution →Which regions became agriculturally prosperous through the Green Revolution?Read the answer and worked solution →Verghese Kurien, the Milkman of India, is linked with which dairy cooperative town?Read the answer and worked solution →Operation Flood, which built a nationwide milk grid, started in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →How many private banks were nationalised under Indira Gandhi after 1967?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the plannersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Green RevolutionRead the answer and worked solution →Run the plan yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the land reformsRead the answer and worked solution →Which revolutionRead the answer and worked solution →Which planRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Planning bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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In the Bihar famine year 1967, the death rate was how much higher than the next year?

  1. 14 per cent
  2. 34 per cent
  3. 3 per cent
  4. 84 per cent
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Correct answer: B. 34 per cent

1. Nine Bihar districts produced under half their normal output. 2. Calorie intake fell from 2200 to as low as 1200. 3. Deaths in 1967 were 34 per cent above 1968. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 3, Politics of Planned Development._

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Facing the food crisis, India accepted food aid mainly from which country?

  1. China mainland
  2. Great Britain
  3. United States
  4. Soviet Union
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Correct answer: C. United States

1. India had to import wheat. 2. Aid came mainly from the US. 3. The US pushed India to change economic policy. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 3, Politics of Planned Development._

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Subsidised high-yielding seeds, fertilisers and guaranteed purchase prices began which programme?

  1. White Revolution
  2. Operation Flood
  3. Plan holiday
  4. Green Revolution
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Correct answer: D. Green Revolution

1. The new strategy backed already irrigated areas. 2. HYV seeds and fertilisers were subsidised. 3. This was the Green Revolution. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 3, Politics of Planned Development._

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