Q1. The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee was set up for the purpose of: choose the most appropriate option from below.
A Investing the adequate financial resources of the village panchayat
B Suggesting measures for democratic decentralisation
C Reporting on the working of the village panchayats at that time
D Suggesting measures for better efficiency in the implementation of the community development projects Correct
Explanation
The committee was appointed to examine the Community Development Programme and related extension work and to suggest how their implementation could work better. That makes the community-development efficiency statement the closest to the purpose of setting up the committee. Democratic decentralisation is strongly associated with the committee because it became its major recommendation, but the printed question asks why it was set up. Investing panchayat finances was not its purpose. Reporting only on village panchayats is too narrow, because the inquiry centred on community development and extension programmes.