New Delhi, 8 July (IANS). The Five -Year Plan used to refer to the document prepared by the Government of India, which used to detail the government’s income and expenses for the next five years. India’s first five -year plan was brought in 1951 after the country became independent. The scheme was brought till the next five years i.e. 1956.
Before 2017, the budget of the Center and all state governments was divided into two parts non-plan budget and planning budget. The model of the Indian economy was based on the concept of planning based on the five -year plans.
The first five -year plan focused on India’s economic development. The scheme was introduced in Parliament by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. Under the scheme, there was a need to pay attention to the agricultural sector for the development of the country. Investments in dams and irrigation were planned for the development of the region. Under this scheme, heavy allocation was made for Bhakra Nangal Dam located on the Sutlej River in Punjab. The plan was based on the harod-domer model with some amendments.
Five Indian Institutes of Technology were established in the country by the end of the first five -year plan i.e. 1956. The government’s plan was successful and its target growth rate was 2.1 percent while the growth rate was 3.6 percent.
After which the second five-year plan was brought in 1956-61, the third five-year plan in 1961-66. However, during the Five Year Plan of 1961–66, the development goal could not be achieved in achieving the expected success, in such a situation, due to the failure of this Five-Year Plan, the government presented a plan for three years from 1966 to 1969. This was called the plan holiday.
The fourth Five Year Plan was brought from 1969 to 1974 for the purpose of progressive achievement of development and self -reliance under the leadership of Indira Gandhi.
The fifth five -year plan focused on poverty removal, employment, justice, agricultural production and defense, which was introduced from 1974 to 1978. Similarly, the sixth five -year plan was again brought from 1980 to 1985 under the leadership of Indira Gandhi. The seventh five -year plan lasted from 1985 to 1990 under the leadership of Rajiv Gandhi.
Eighth Five Year Plan P.V. The ninth five -year plan under the leadership of Narasimha Rao was brought from 1992 to 1997 and from 1997 to 2002 under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The tenth five -year plan was run from 2002 to 2007 under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. From 2007 to 2012, the eleventh five -year plan was brought under the leadership of Manmohan Singh.
The 12th Five Year Plan is also called the country’s last five -year plan. The scheme was brought for a period from 2012 to 2017 for the purpose of fast, more inclusive and sustainable development.
In this way, a total of 12 five-year schemes were brought in the country, under which separate works were done for the development of the country. The NITI Aayog took place of the ‘Planning Commission’, which works to prepare, implemented and regulate the five -year plans. After which a three -year action plans were launched in place of the five -year plan which has been going on for decades from 1 April 2017, which is part of a seven -year strategy document and 15 -year -old vision document.
During these five -year plans, India achieved many goals such as green revolution in agriculture, white revolution in milk, silver revolution for eggs and blue revolution to promote fish production. Through these five-year plans, many attempts were made such as education, health, infrastructure, development of social structure, improvement in the level of living of people and they also got hopeless success. The country moved fast on the path of development.
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