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1. First Five Year Plan
(1951-55)
Total budget: 206.8 billion (INR) or USD$23.6 billion.
Objectives
 the standard of living
 Community and agriculture
development
 Energy and irrigation
 Communications and
transport
 Industry
 Land rehabilitation
 Social services
 Target of GDP growth 2.1 per
year
 Achieved had been 3.6% per
year
ACHIEVEMENTS
 GDP 3.6% per year
 Evolution of good irrigation
system
 improvement in
 roads
 civil aviation
 railways
 Telegraphs
 posts
 manufacture of fertilizers
 electrical equipment

2. Disadvantages
 development of only a few industries
 private industry had not developed

3. Second Five Year Plan
(1956-1961)
OBJECTIVES
 To increase by 25% the national
income
 To make the country more
industrialized
 To increase employment
opportunities so that every citizen
gets a job
Development of
 Mining and industry
 Community and agriculture
development
 Power and irrigation
 Social services
 Communications and transport
 Miscellaneous
ACHIEVEMENTS
 5 steel plants
 a hydro-electric power project
 production of coal increased
 more railway lines
 Land reform measures
 improved the living standards of
the people
 The large enterprises in
seventeen industries were
nationalized

4. Disadvantages
 eliminate the importation of consumer
goods
 high tariffs
 Low quotas or banning some items
altogether
 License were required for starting new
companies
 This is when India got its License Raj, the
bureaucratic control over the economy
 When a business was losing money the
Government would prevent them from
shutting down

5. OBJECTIVES
 More stress to agriculture
 subsidies
 Sufficient help

Effective use of country's resources
 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
Third Five Year Plan
(1961-1966)
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Decentralization
 Organizations formed
 Panchayat
 Zila Parishads
 Laid emphasis on
 oil conservation
 irrigation
 Afforestation
 dry farming
 Many fertilizer and cement plants
were built
 Green Revolution
PMs
Jawaharlal Nehru
Gulzarilal Nanda
Lal Bahadur Shastri

6. Problems faced
 Sino Indian War, India witnessed
increase in price of products. The
resulting inflation

7. 4th Five Year Plan
(1969 to 1974)
OBJECTIVES
 to reform and restructure
govts expenditure
agenda( defense
became one major
expense)
 To facilitated growth in
exports
 to alter the socio
economic structure of
the society
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Great advancement has
been made with regard
to India's national
income
 considered as one of the
emerging powers
 served as a stepping
stone for the economic
growth
 Food grains production
increased

8. problems
 a gap was created between the people
of the rural areas and those of the urban
areas.
 Due to recession, famine and drought,
India did not pay much heed to long
term goals

9. Fifth Five Year Plan
1974 to1979
OBJECTIVES
 To reduce social, regional,
and economic disparities
 To enhance agricultural
productivity
 To check rural and urban
unemployment
 To encourage self-
employment
 Production support policies
in the cottage industry
sector
 To develop labor intensive
technological improvements
PROBLEMS
 The international economy
was in a trouble
 Food, oil, and fertilizers
where prices sky-rocketed
 Several inflationary
pressures
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Food grain production was
above 118 million tons due to
the improvement of
infrastructural facilities
 Bombay High had shot up the
commercial production of oil in
India

10. Problems faced
 The world economy was in a
troublesome state
 This had a negative impact on the Indian
economy
 Prices in the energy and food sector
skyrocketed and as a consequence
inflation became inevitable

11. Sixth Five Year Plan
1980 to1985
OBJECTIVES
 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
 To initiate Family Planning
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Speedy industrial
development
 Emphasis on the information
technology sector
 self sufficiency in food
 science and technology also
made a significant advance
 several successful programs
on improvement of public
health
 government in the Indian
healthcare sector
 Government investments in
the Indian healthcare sector

12. Problems faced
 During this time the Prime Minister was
Rajiv Gandhi and hence industrial
development was the emphasis of this plan
some opposed it specially the communist
groups, this slowed down the pace of
progress.

13. Seventh Five Year Plan
1985 to 1989
OBJECTIVES
 Anti-poverty program
 Improved facilities for education
to girls
 The government undertook to
increase productivity of
 Oilseeds,Fruits,Vegetables
 Pulses,cereals,Fish
 Egg,Meat,milk.
 Communications
 Emergence of informatics, and
hooking up of
telecommunications with
computers
 Transport
 inland waterways, product
pipelines, civil aviation, coastal
shipping
ACHIEVEMENTS
 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

14. Problems
 1989-91 was a period of political
instability in India and hence no five year
plan was implemented
 In 1991, India faced a crisis in foreign
exchange(Forex) reserves

15. Eighth Five Year Plan
1992 to1997
OBJECTIVES
 Prioritize the specific sectors which
requires immediate investment
 To generate full scale employment
 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 strengthen the infrastructural
facilities
 To place greater emphasis on role
of private initiative in the
development of the industrial sector
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Rise in the employment level
 Poverty reduction
 Self-reliance on domestic
resources
 Self-sufficiency in
agricultural production
 GDP Growth Per Annum
5.6

16. Ninth Five Year Plan
1997 to 2002
OBJECTIVES
 to prioritize rural development
 to generate adequate
employment opportunities
 to stabilize the prices
 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
 to create a liberal market for
increase in private
investments
ACHIEVEMENTS
 A combined effort of public,
private, and all levels of
government
 ensured the growth of India's
economy.
 Service sector showed fast
growth rate

17. Tenth Five Year Plan
(2002-2007)
OBJECTIVES
 To transform the country into the fastest growing economy of the world
 targets an annual economic growth of 10%
 Human and social development
 The social net
 Industry and services:
Industry,Minerals,Energy,Information technology,Tourism,Real
estate,Construction,Internal trade
 Forests and environment
 Science and technology
 Special area programs
schooling to be compulsory for children

18. Eleventh five year plan
OBJECTIVES
 Income & Poverty
 Education
 Health
 Women and Children
 Infrastructure
 Environment