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Economics Notes on Five Year Plans of India

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Economics subject covers a good number of questions and is an important SSC

Exams topic. Here, we are going to provide you with the information regarding all
Five-Year Plans.

Five-Year Plans
When India became an independent country, many questions had arisen in front of
the country’s leaders at that time. The British had left the Indian economy
handicapped, leaders had the challenges to make country’s economy strong. A
formal model of planning was adopted. The Planning commission was established
on 15 th March 1950, with Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as the
Chairman. The Planning Commission used to directly report to the Prime Minister
of India. The planning commission was replaced by  NITI Aayog (National Institute
for Transforming India Aayog) which was established by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi on 1 st January 2015.

Planning Commission was assigned the task of formulating plans for the most
effective and balanced utilisation of resources and determining priorities. Since
then the Planning Commission frames the centralized and integrated national
economic programs at an interval of every ve years, thereby known as the Five-
Year Plans.

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The First Five-Year Plan of India was presented by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in
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First Plan (1951-56):

It was based on Harrod-Domar Model.

Focus on Agriculture, Price Stability, Power and Transport
It was a successful plan primarily because of good harvests in the last two
years of the plan.

Second Plan (1956-61):

It also called Mahalanobis plan named after the well-known statistician.

Focus on rapid industrialization
Advocated huge imports through foreign loans.
Shifted basic emphasis from agriculture to industry
During this plan, prices increased by 30%, against a decline of 13% during the
First plan

Third Plan (1961-66):

It stressed agriculture and improvement in the production of wheat, but the

brief Sino-Indian war of 1962 exposed weaknesses in the economy and
shifted the focus towards the defence industry and the Indian Army.
Complete failure in reaching the targets due to unforeseen events-Chinese
aggression (1962), Indo-Pak war (1964), severe drought 1965-66.

Three Annual Plans (1966-69):

Prevailing crisis in agriculture and serious food shortage necessitated the

emphasis on agriculture during the Annual Plans
During these plans, a whole new agricultural strategy was implemented. It
involved the wide-spread distribution of high-yielding varieties of seeds,
extensive use of fertilizers, exploitation of irrigation potential and soil
conservation.
During the Annual Plans, the economy absorbed the shocks generated during
the Third Plan.

Fourth Plan (1969-74):

The main emphasis was on the growth rate of agriculture to enable other
sectors to move forward
The rst two years of the plan saw record production. The last three years did
not measure up due to poor monsoon

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The in ux of Bangladeshi refugees before and after 1971 Indo-Pak war was
an important
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Fifth Plan (1974-79):

It proposed to achieve two main objectives: 'removal of poverty' (Garibi

Hatao) and 'attainment of self reliance'
Promotion of high rate of growth, better distribution of income and signi cant
growth in the domestic rate of savings were seen as key instruments
The plan was terminated in 1978 (instead of 1979) when Janta Party
government rose to power

Rolling Plan (1978-80):

Janta government put forward a plan for 1978- 1983. However, the
government lasted for only 2 years. Congress government returned to power
in 1980 and launched a different plan.

Sixth Plan (1980-85):

Focus - Increase in national income, modernization of technology, ensuring

a continuous decrease in poverty and unemployment, population control
through family planning etc

Seventh Plan (1985-90):

Focus - rapid growth in food-grains production, increased employment

opportunities and productivity within the framework of basic tenants of
planning
The plan was very successful, the economy recorded 6% growth rate against
the targeted 5%

Eight Plan (1992-97):

The eighth plan was postponed by two years because of political uncertainty
at the centre
Worsening Balance of Payment position and in ation during 1990-91 were the
key issues during the launch of the plan
The plan undertook drastic policy measures to combat the bad economic
situation and to undertake an annual average growth of 5.6%
Some of the main economic outcomes during eighth plan period were rapid
economic growth, high growth of agriculture and allied sector, and
manufacturing sector, growth in exports and imports, improvement in trade
and current account de cit

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Ninth Plan (1997-2002):

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It was developed in the context of four important dimensions: Quality of life,
generation of productive employment, regional balance and self-reliance.

Tenth Plan (2002-2007):

To achieve 8% GDP growth rate

Reduction of poverty ratio by 5 percentage points by 2007
Providing gainful high quality employment to the addition to the labour force
over the tenth plan period
Universal access to primary education by 2007
Reduction in gender gaps in literacy and wage rates by atleast 50% by 2007
Reduction in decadal rate of population growth between 2001 and 2011 to
16.2%
Increase in literacy rate to 72% within the plan period and to 80% by 2012
Increase in forest and tree cover to 25% by 2007 and 33% by 2012.
Cleaning of all major polluted rivers by 2007 and other noti ed stretches by
2012.

Eleventh Plan (2007-2012):

Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10%. Increase agricultural GDP growth rate

to 4% per year
Create 70 million new work opportunities and reduce educated unemployment
to below 5%
Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 %
Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage point. Increase the percentage
of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15 %
Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1
Raise the sex ratio for age group 0-6 to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-
2017
Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009
Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12
Increase energy e ciency by 20 percentage points by 2016-17

Twelfth Plan (2012-2017):

It seeks to achieve 4% growth in agriculture sector

It aims at average GDP Growth Rate of 8%
Increasing Infrastructure investment to 9% of GDP
Provision of Banking Services for 90% households
Getting 5 Indian Universities in the list of top 200 universities in the world
Reducing Infant Mortality Rate to 25 & Maternal Mortality Rate to 100
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