Challenges before the post independent India:
(i) Rehabilitation of about 70 to 80 lacs refugees who moved from Pakistan to India.
(ii) Integration of India i.e. accession of 562 Princely states to India.
(iii) Determining border lines with the neighbouring countries and having good and healthy relations with them.
(iv) Strengthening India economically.
(v) Promoting national unity by mitigating the prevailing linguistic, communal, racial and regional diversities.