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

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

3. Second Five Year Plan
( 1956-1961)
OBJECTIVES ACHIEVEMENTS
 To increase by 25% the national
income  5 steel plants
 To make the country more
industrialized
 To increase employment
 a hydro-electric power project
opportunities so that every citizen
gets a job  production of coal increased
Development of  more railway lines
 Mining and industry
 Community and agriculture
development  Land reform measures
 Power and irrigation
 Social services  improved the living standards of
 Communications and transport the people
 Miscellaneous  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. Third Five Year Plan
(1961-1966)
ACHIEVEMENTS
OBJECTIVES  Decentralization
 More stress to agriculture  Organizations formed
 subsidies  Panchayat
 Sufficient help  Zila Parishads

Effective use of country's resources
 Laid emphasis on
 oil conservation
 To increase the national income by  irrigation
5% per year  Afforestation
 To increase the production of  dry farming
agriculture so that the nation is self
sufficient in food grains
 Many fertilizer and cement plants
 To provide employment opportunities
were built
for every citizen of the country  Green Revolution
 To establish equality among all the PMs
people of the country 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 ACHIEVEMENTS
 to reform and restructure  Great advancement has
govts expenditure been made with regard
agenda( defense to India's national
became one major income
expense)  considered as one of the
 To facilitated growth in emerging powers
exports  served as a stepping
 to alter the socio stone for the economic
economic structure of growth
the society  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 PROBLEMS
 To reduce social, regional,  The international economy
and economic disparities was in a trouble
 To enhance agricultural  Food, oil, and fertilizers
productivity where prices sky-rocketed
 To check rural and urban  Several inflationary
unemployment pressures
 To encourage self- ACHIEVEMENTS
employment  Food grain production was
 Production support policies above 118 million tons due to
in the cottage industry the improvement of
sector infrastructural facilities
 To develop labor intensive
 Bombay High had shot up the
commercial production of oil in
technological improvements 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 ACHIEVEMENTS
 To improve productivity level  Speedy industrial
 To initiate modernization for development
achieving economic and  Emphasis on the information
technological self-reliance
technology sector
 To control poverty and
 self sufficiency in food
unemployment
 To develop indigenous energy  science and technology also
sources and efficient energy made a significant advance
usage  several successful programs
 To promote improved quality of on improvement of public
life of the citizens health
 To introduce Minimum Needs  government in the Indian
Program for the poor
healthcare sector
 To initiate Family Planning
 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 ACHIEVEMENTS
 Anti-poverty program  Social Justice
 Improved facilities for education  Removal of oppression of
to girls
the week
 The government undertook to
increase productivity of  Using modern technology
 Oilseeds,Fruits,Vegetables  Agricultural development
 Pulses,cereals,Fish  Anti-poverty programs
 Egg,Meat,milk.
 Communications
 Full supply of food,
 Emergence of informatics, and
clothing, and shelter
hooking up of  Increasing productivity of
telecommunications with small and large scale
computers farmers
 Transport  Making India an
 inland waterways, product
pipelines, civil aviation, coastal Independent Economy
shipping

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 ACHIEVEMENTS
 Prioritize the specific sectors which
 Rise in the employment level
requires immediate investment  Poverty reduction
 To generate full scale employment  Self-reliance on domestic
 Promote social welfare measures resources
like improved healthcare, sanitation,
communication and provision for
 Self-sufficiency in
extensive education facilities at all agricultural production
levels
 GDP Growth Per Annum
 To check the increasing population
growth by creating mass awareness 5.6
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

16. Ninth Five Year Plan
1997 to 2002
OBJECTIVES ACHIEVEMENTS
 to prioritize rural development  A combined effort of public,
 to generate adequate private, and all levels of
employment opportunities government
 to stabilize the prices  ensured the growth of India's
 to ensure food and nutritional economy.
security
 Service sector showed fast
 to provide for the basic
infrastructural facilities like growth rate
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

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