DETAILED and SHORT notes for revision of planning commission of India and Five-year plans of India

1. PLANNING COMMISSION
(INDIA)
Five Year Plans of India

2. Introduction of Planning Commission
Formed
Dissolved
15 March 1950
17 Aug 2014
Headquarters Yojana Bhavan, New Delhi
Website www.planningcommission.gov.in
Footnotes Now replaced by New institution
known as NITI Aayog

3. Important Dates
• 1938 – Congress President and Indian National Army Supreme leader
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who had been persuaded (Induced) by
Meghnad Saha to set up a National Planning Committee.
• M. Visvesvaraya chosen as head of committee, but then Meghnad Shah approached
the great engineer and requested him to step down. He argued that planning needed
a reciprocity between science and politics. So, Sir M. Visvesvaraya agreed.
• Then, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was made head of the National planning committee.
• 1944 - ‘British Raj’ so called established a planning board that functioning from 1944
to 1946.

4. Five Year Plan (India)
1. First five year plan: 1951 – 1956

5. Five Year Plan (India)
2. Second five year plan: 1956 – 1961

6. Five Year Plan (India)
3. Third five year plan: 1961 – 1966

7. Five Year Plan (India)
4. Plan Holiday:1966 – 1969

8. Five Year Plan (India)
5. Fourth five year plan: 1969 – 1974

9. Five Year Plan (India)
6. Fifth five year plan: 1967 – 1974

10. Five Year Plan (India)
7. Rolling Plan: 1978 – 1980

11. Five Year Plan (India)
8. Sixth five year plan: 1980 – 1985

12. Five Year Plan (India)
9. Seventh five year plan: 1985 – 1990

13. Five Year Plan (India)
Annual Plan: 1990 – 91
1991 – 92
• Eighth five year plan could not take place due to volatile
political situation at the centre.

14. Five Year Plan (India)
10. Eighth five year plan: 1992 – 1997

15. Five Year Plan (India)
11. Ninth five year plan: 1997 – 2002

16. Five Year Plan (India)
12. Tenth five year plan: 2002 – 2007

17. Five Year Plan (India)
13. Eleventh five year plan: 2007 – 2012

18. Five Year Plan (India)
14. Twelfth five year plan: 2012 – 2017 running

19. Made By: JYOTI PAWAR
MPPSC student