FIVE YEAR PLANNING
PROGRAME
The Planning Commission was established
in 1950. Responsible only to the prime
minister, the commission is independent of
the cabinet. The prime minister is
chairperson of the commission, and the
minister of state with independent charge
for planning and program implementation
serves as deputy chairperson.
These five year plans are formulated by the
planning commission whose objective is to
utilize the country's resources effectively, so
that the standard of living of the people
improves
1 First plan (1951-1956)
2 Second plan (1956-1961)
3 Third plan (1961-1966)
4 Fourth plan (1969-1974)
5 Fifth plan (1974-1979)
6 Sixth plan (1980-1985)
7 Seventh plan (1985-1989)
8 Period between 1989-91
9 Eighth plan (1992-1997)
10 Ninth plan (1997-2002)
11 Tenth plan (2002-2007)
12 Eleventh plan (2007-2012)
FIRST FIVE YEARS PLAN
(1951-1956)
The first Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru
presented the first five-year plan to the
Parliament of India on December 8, 1951.
OBJECTIVES OF FIRST PLAN.
Community and agriculture development
Energy and irrigation
Communications and transport
Industry
Land rehabilitation
Social services
The target of GDP growth in the first five
year plan of India was 2.1% per year and
the actual growth of GDP that was
achieved had been 3.6% per year.
During the period of India first five year
plan, many projects related to irrigation
had been started, such as the Mettur
Dam, Bhakra Dam, and Hirakud Dam.
The World Health Organization, with the
Indian government, addressed children's
health and reduced infant mortality,
contributing to population growth.
At the end of the plan period in 1956, five
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) were
started as major technical institutions.
University Grant Commission was set up to
take care of funding and take measures to
strengthen the higher education in the
country.
First five year plan in India had improved
the living condition of the people of the
country and is of historical importance
SECOND FIVE YEAR PLAN
The various tasks of the second five year plan in India
are:
To increase by 25% the national income
To make the country more industrialized
To increase employment opportunities so that every
citizen gets a job
In India, the second five year plan focused on industry -
more specifically on the heavy industry. The
domestic production of industrial goods in the public
sector was encouraged by the second five year plan
in India
OBJECTIVES OF SECOND PLAN.
Mining and industry
Community and agriculture development
Power and irrigation
Social services
Communications and transport
Miscellaneous
Hydroelectric power projects and five steel mills
at Bhilai, Durgapur, and Jamshedpur were
established. Coal production was increased.
More railway lines were added in the north
east.
THIRD FIVE YEAR PLAN
The various tasks of the third five year plan India are:
To increase the national income by 5% per year
To increase the production of agriculture so that the
nation is self sufficient in food grains
To provide employment opportunities for every citizen
of the country
To establish equality among all the people of the
country
The third plan stressed on agriculture and improving
production of rice. . In 1965-1966, the Green
Revolution in India advanced agriculture.
The construction of dams continued. Many
cement and fertilizer plants were also built.
Punjab begun producing an abundance of
wheat.
Many primary schools were started in rural
areas.
Panchayat elections were started and the states
were given more development responsibilities.
State electricity boards and state secondary
education boards were formed. States were
made responsible for secondary and higher
education. State road transportation
corporations were formed and local road
building became a state responsibility
FOURTH FIVE YEAR PLAN
(1969-1974)
At this time Indira Gandhi was the Prime
Minister. The Indira Gandhi government
nationalized 19 major Indian banks. In addition,
the situation in East Pakistan (now independent
Bangladesh) was becoming dire as the Indo-
Pakistani War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation
War took place.
Funds earmarked for the industrial development
had to be used for the war effort. India also
performed the Smiling Buddha underground
nuclear test in 1974, partially in response to the
United States deployment of the Seventh Fleet
in the Bay of Bengal to warn India against
attacking West Pakistan and widening the war.
FIFTH FIVE YEAR PLAN
(1974-1979)
Background of the Fifth Five Year Plan India:
The Fifth Five-Year Plan (FY 1974-78) was drafted in
late 1973 when crude oil prices were rising rapidly;
the rising prices quickly forced a series of revisions.
The plan was subsequently approved in late 1976 but
was terminated at the end of FY 1977 because a new
government wanted different priorities and programs.
The fifth plan was in effect only one year, although it
provided some guidance to investments throughout
the five-year period. The economy operated under
annual plans in FY 1978 and FY 1979.
OBJECTIVES OF FIFTH PLAN.
To reduce social, regional, and economic disparities for
developmental planning
To enhance agricultural productivity
To initiate land reforms
To check rural and urban unemployment
To emphasize on household industries like carpet-weaving, ,
handlooms, sericulture, and handicrafts
To encourage self-employment through a well integrated local
planning
To encourage import substitution in areas like industrial
machinery, chemicals, paper, iron and steel and non-ferrous
metals
To capture the markets with locational advantages
To initiate appropriate use of fiscal, credit and production
support policies in the cottage industry sector
To develop labor intensive technological improvements
SIXTH FIVE YEAR PLAN (1980-
1985)
Called the Janata government plan, the sixth plan marked a
reversal of the Nehruvian model.
Background of Sixth Five Year Plan India:
At the onset of the Sixth Five Year Plan India, Rajiv
Gandhi, the then prime minister prioritized speedy
industrial development, with special emphasis on the
information technology sector. From the Fifth Five Year
Plan, the nation had been able to achieve self
sufficiency in food. Moreover, the industrial sector was
also diversified and science and technology also made
a significant advance. However, several successful
programs on improvement of public health and
epidemic control were also undertaken to reduce
infant mortality and increase life expectancy.
OBJECTIVES OF SIXTH PLAN.
To increase the growth rate of the economy
To concentrate on the promotion of efficient use of resources
To improve productivity level
To initiate modernization for achieving economic and
technological self-reliance
To control poverty and unemployment
To develop indigenous energy sources and efficient energy
usage
To promote improved quality of life of the citizens
To introduce Minimum Needs Program for the poor and needy
with an emphasis to reduce the discrepancies in income and
wealth accumulation
To initiate Family Planning Programs in order to check the
growing population trends
To protect and improve ecological and environmental assets
To promote the education at all levels
SEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN
(1985-1989)
The main objectives of the 7th five year plans were to establish
growth in the areas of increasing economic productivity,
production of food grains, and generating employment
opportunities
OBJECTIVES OF SEVENTH PLAN.
Social Justice
Removal of oppression of the week
Using modern technology
Agricultural development
Anti-poverty programs
Full supply of food, clothing, and shelter
Increasing productivity of small and large scale farmers
Making India an Independent Economy
Agriculture:
The government undertook to increase productivity of oilseeds,
fruits, vegetables, pulses, cereals, fish, egg, meat, and milk.
Welfare:
Improved facilities for education to girls, family welfare,
healthcare, reduction in infant mortality were undertaken by
the government as part of the 7th five year plan.
Communications:
Emergence of informatics, telematics, and hooking up of
telecommunications with computers were important features of
the 7th five year plan in terms of development in
Communications.
Transport:
More stress was laid on increasing supplementary modes of
transport such as inland waterways, product pipelines, civil
aviation, coastal shipping. The 7th Plan expected an increase in
accessibility to about 60 percent of the villages in India.
EIGHT FIVE YEAR PLAN
(1992-1997)
Background of the Eighth Five Year Plan
India:
Just before the formulation of the Eighth Five Year Plan
India, there was great political instability in India which
hindered the implementation of any five years plan for
the following two years after the Seventh Five Year Plan.
This period is characterized by extreme FOREX reserve
crisis and introduction of liberalization and privatization
in Indian economy. To invite FDI in Indian industrial
sector and to follow free market reforms were the only
possible ways to revive the country from foreign debt.
OBJECTIVES OF EIGHT PLAN.
To prioritize the specific sectors which requires
immediate investment
To generate full scale employment
To promote social welfare measures like improved
healthcare, sanitation, communication and provision
for extensive education facilities at all levels
To check the increasing population growth by creating
mass awareness programs
To encourage growth and diversification of agriculture
To achieve self-reliance in food and produce surpluses
for increase in exports
To strengthen the infrastructural facilities like energy,
power, irrigation
To increase the technical capacities for developed
science and technology
To modernize Indian economy and build up a
competitive efficiency in order to participate in the
global developments
To place greater emphasis on role of private initiative
in the development of the industrial sector
To involve the public sector to focus on only strategic,
high-tech and essential infrastructural developments
To create opportunities for the general people to get
involved in various developmental activities by building
and strengthening mass institutions
NINTH FIVE YEAR PLAN (1997-
2002).
OBJECTIVES OF NINTH PLAN.
to prioritize agricultural sector and emphasize on the rural development
to generate adequate employment opportunities and promote poverty
reduction
to stabilize the prices in order to accelerate the growth rate of the economy
to ensure food and nutritional security
to provide for the basic infrastructural facilities like education for all, safe
drinking water, primary health care, transport, energy
to check the growing population increase
to encourage social issues like women empowerment, conservation of
certain benefits for the Special Groups of the society
to create a liberal market for increase in private investments
TENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN (2002-
2007).
The Tenth Five Year Plan India documents are-
Vol. I:Dimensions and strategies
Perspective, objectives and strategy
Macroeconomic dimensions
Public sector plan: resources and allocations.
External sector dimensions
Employment perspective
Governance and implementation
Disaster management: the development perspective
Policy imperatives and programmatic initiatives
Vol. II:Sectoral policies and programs:
Overview
Human and social development
Sectoral overview
Elementary education
Secondary education
Vocational education
Higher and technical education
Adult literacy and continuing education
Youth and sports
Health
Indian system of medicine and homeopathy
Family welfare
Women and children
Art and culture
The social net:
Sectoral overview
Poverty alleviation in rural India -strategy and programs
Food and nutrition security
Public distribution system
Labor welfare and social security
Special groups:
Socially disadvantaged groups
Scheduled tribes
Other special groups
Agriculture and rural development:
Agriculture
Animal husbandry and dairy
Development of wastelands and degraded lands
Khadi and Village industries
Rural water supply and sanitation
Urban development:
Urban development
Civic amenities in urban areas
Industry and services:
Industry
Minerals
Energy
Information technology
Tourism
Real estate
Construction
Internal trade
Infrastructure:
Irrigation, flood control and command area
development
Power
Transport
Information and broadcasting
Communications
Forests and environment:
Forests and environment
Science and technology:
Science and technology
Vol. III: State plans trends,
concerns, and strategies:
Introduction
Plan investments and financing
Development trends
Special area programs
Planning and implementation issues
Concerns and strategies
ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN (2007-
2012)
OBJECTIVES:
Income & Poverty
Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10% and then maintain at
10% in the 12th Plan in order to double per capita income by
2016-17
Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year
Reduce educated unemployment to below 5%.
Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 percent.
Reduce the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10
percentage points.
Education
Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from
52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12
Develop minimum standards of educational attainment in
elementary school, and by regular testing monitor effectiveness
of education to ensure quality
Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or more to
85%
Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage points
Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher
education from the present 10% to 15% by the end of the plan
Health
Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio
to 1 per 1000 live births
Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1
Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009 and ensure that
there are no slip-backs
Reduce malnutrition among children of age group 0-3 to half its
present level
Reduce anaemia among women and girls by 50% by the end of
the plan
Raise the sex ratio for age group 0-6 to 935 by
2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-17
Ensure that at least 33 percent of the direct
and indirect beneficiaries of all government
schemes are women and girl children
Ensure that all children enjoy a safe childhood,
without any compulsion to work
Infrastructure
Ensure electricity connection to all villages and
BPL households by 2009 and round-the-clock
power.
Ensure all-weather road connection to all habitation
with population 1000 and above (500 in hilly and tribal
areas) by 2009, and ensure coverage of all significant
habitation by 2015
Connect every village by telephone by November 2007
and provide broadband connectivity to all villages by
2012
Environment
Increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.
Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities
by 2011-12.
Treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river
waters.
Increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points by
2016-17.