In India, which two years were known as annual plans before eighth five year plan was launched?
1990-1991, 1991-1992
The question asks which two years were run as annual plans in the gap just before the Eighth Five Year Plan.
A five year plan is meant to run continuously, but occasionally the country falls back on one-year 'annual plans' when a new plan cannot be launched on time.
At the turn of the 1990s India faced serious political instability (frequent changes of government) and a severe balance-of-payments and economic crisis, so a full plan could not be started.
As a result, the years 1990-1991 and 1991-1992 were treated as annual plans, and the Eighth Five Year Plan was pushed back and finally launched in 1992, running from 1992 to 1997.
The other pairs are wrong: 1969-70/1970-71 and 1974-75/1975-76 were themselves plan-gap annual plans in earlier decades, but the question specifically asks about the years immediately before the Eighth Plan, and 1985-86/1986-87 fell within the running Seventh Plan.
Hence, the correct answer is 1990-1991, 1991-1992.
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