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Five Year Plans and Its Goals



First Five-Year Plan 1951-52 to 1955-56 ___ Priority given to irrigation and agriculture.


Second Five-Year Plan 1956-57 to  1960-61 ___ Development of basic and heavy industries.



Third Five-Year Plan 1961-62 to 1965-66 ___  Long-term development of India’s economy.


Annual Five-Year Plan 1967-68 to 1968-69___  Plan holiday period. Pakistan and Chinese wars.


Fourth Five-Year Plan 1969-70 to 1973-74 ___ It  brought in a scientific temper to Indian agriculture.


Fifth Five-Year Plan 1974-75 to 1977-78 ___  Janata Government terminated a year earlier and introduced the Rolling-Plan.



Annual Five-Year Plan 1978-79 to 1979-80___  Introduced by the Janata Government.


Sixth Five-Year Plan 1980-81 to 1984-85___  New Government revised plan for 1981-85 and approved subsequently.


Seventh Five-Year Plan 1985-86  to 1989-90___  Productivity,work and food were given basic priorities.


Eighth Five-Year Plan 1992-93 to 1996-97 ___  was designed to tackle the twin problems of unemployment and poverty


Ninth Five-Year Plan 1997-98 to 2001-2002 ___   Ensuring the implementation of Common Minimum Programme and boosting agricultural investment


Tenth Five-Year Plan 2002-2003 to 2006-2007 ___   Funds will be allocated especially towards poverty alleviation programmes.


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