Who was architect of Indian Planning?
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
The question asks who is regarded as the architect of Indian planning.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, a renowned statistician, is widely regarded as the architect of Indian planning.
He devised the Mahalanobis model, which formed the basis of India's Second Five-Year Plan (1956), emphasising heavy industries.
He also founded the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata.
Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel is remembered for the integration of princely states, not for economic planning.
Manmohan Singh is associated with the 1991 economic reforms, and Jay Prakash Narayan with the Total Revolution movement, so neither is the answer.
Therefore, the architect of Indian planning was Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.
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