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Towns
On account of the three reasons:
Places of pilgrimage
Seat of a court or capital of provinces
Trading or commercial centers
Industrial transition
Rise of large scale modern industries by private
enterprises
1850-55: first cotton mill, Jute mill and coal mine
Cotton mills
Jute mills
1st quarter of 19th cent;
51
18
End of 19th century
194
36
Industrial growth in the first half of 20th century
Wars of 1914 and 1939
Tariff protection to Indian industries: First fiscal
commission recommendation accepted by GOI.
Slow growth of private enterprise: Unimaginative
private enterprise and less capital availability
Colonial exploitation
Exploitation through Indigo export
Exploitation of artisans- Gomastas
Through investment
Private foreign direct investment: coal, mining, jute mill,
1. Agriculture, Animal
husbandry, forestry,
fisheries
2. Mines, manufacturing,
small enterprises
3. Trade, Transport and
Communications
4. Others
National
income
(1948-49) per
cent
Work force
(1950-51) per
cent
49.1
72.3
17.1
10.7
18.5
7.7
15.7
9.3
Planning period
Planning Period
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1951-56
1956-61
1961-66
1966-69 (plan holiday)
1969-74
1974-79
1979-83(didnt complete, change in govt.)
1980-85
1985-90
1990-92 (No plan)
1992-97
1997-2002
2002-07
2007-12
2012-17 (Running)
Structural constraints
1. Acute deficiency of material capital, which prevented the
introduction of new technologies
2. Limitation on the speed of capital accumulation (low
capacity to save)
3. Structural limitation in converting saving in to investment
even if saving can be increased (by assumption)
4. Agriculture faces diminishing return-industries to operate
such that increasing return to scale. Hence, it will absorb
surplus labour from agriculture.
5. Market mechanism may lead to excessive consumption
by upper income group causing relative under investment
in sectors required for accelerating economy.
6. Income inequality was acceptable within certain limit as
long as it fuels the economic growth.
and agriculture
Second five year plan(1956-61): economic stability- big
industry argument
Emphasis on the development of basic and heavy
industries
Role of state
Maintain law and order
Abolition of exploitative and socially wasteful land
and
anti-poverty
Seventh
of
household
and
small
industries
for
attack on
by creation of condition of
expanding economy (5.4 % growth).
7. 1985-90: Emphasize on food grain growth,
increase in employment opportunity and raise
productivity. Known as infrastructure plan.
1990-95: The plan approved-but series of
changes in govt. at centre-the fourth version of
8th plan implemented
8. 1992-97: Economic crisis caused by BoP crisisrising debt burden-increase in budget deficitmounting inflation
Sectoral outlays(
Rs in Crore
Pla
n
Agricultur
e+
Irrigation
Total
600
260
120
520
460
1960
950
440
1080
1300
830
4600
1750
1250
1970
2120
1490
8580
3810
2450
3630
3240
2770
15900
8740
7400
9580
6870
6840
39430
26130
30750
16950
17680
17780
109290
48100
61690
29220
41000
38720
218730
101150
12890
0
47890
101550
105570
485460
201442
21924
3
60362
236085
223909
941041
Pattern of financing
1. Domestic Budgetary Resources (DMR): raised from
a. surplus current revenues(current revenue-current
expenditure)
b. contribution of public enterprises
c. mobilization of internal private saving, through
market borrowing, small savings and provident
funds etc.
d. additional resource mobilization in the form of
additional taxes and additional revenue from public
enterprises.
2. External sources
3. Deficit financing: Excess of expenditure are income
financed through borrowing from RBI.
DMR(%)
External
Assistance(%)
Deficit
Financing(%)
73
10
17
56
24
20
59
28
13
74
13
13
82
15
78
14
75
16
86
borrowing
But after third plan intended to become self
sufficient
Components of DMR (%) as source of finance for
component 1
2 3
4
5
6
7
8
different
plans. a, b, c, d as given in slide 28.
s
a
25
-1
-5
-2
13
-8
-10
34
35
3
1
25
40
28
41
58
62
13
2
3
34
27
37
30
17
--
Total from
DMR
73
5
6
59
74
82
78
75
86
Growth performance
prices)
Plan
Target
Actual
First
2.1
3.6
Second
4.5
4.1
Third
5.6
2.8
Fourth
5.7
3.3
Fifth
4.4
4.8
Sixth
5.2
5.7
seventh
Eighth
5.6
6.8
Ninth
6.5
5.4
Tenth
7.6
Eleventh
Twelfth
Key Failure
Gross inefficiency of production of PSUs
Unemployment
Failure to eliminate poverty
In equality of income