At the time of the Second Five Year Plan, some controversial issues rose in reference of relevancy of agriculture over industry. J.C. Kumarappa, a Gandhian Economist proposed an alternative blueprint for rural India. Second Five Year Plan emphasised on industry in place of agriculture for rural India. Bharatiya Lok Dal leader, Chaudhary Charan Singh also commented that the planning leading to creation of prosperity in Urban and industrial sections at the cost of rural welfare. Others debated that without an increase in Industrial sector, poverty could not be alleviated. Indian planning did not have an agrarian strategy to boost the production of food grains. It also proposed programmes of community development and spent large sums on irrigation projects and failure was not that of policy but its non-implementation, because of the politics of land owning classes. Moreover, they also argued that if the government had spent more money on agriculture, it would not have solved the massive problem of poverty.
