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Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher Published this article page no 6 the first five year plan was launched in 1951 and covered the period 1951-52 to 1955-56. second and third five year plans covered the period from 1956-57 to 1960-61 and 1961-62 to 1965-66 respectively. two successive droughts during mid-sixties 1965-66 and 1966-67 and war with pakistan in 1965 forced plan holiday in 1966- 67 and 1968-69. this period was covered by annual plans which are also termed as rolling plans. the fourth five year plan began in 1969-70 and ended in 1973-74. following this the fifth five ...
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Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher Published this article page no 7 the sixth five year plan took off in 1980. the seventh five year plan covered the period between 1985 and 1990. once again due to the political instability and initiation of liberalisation policy the eighth five year plan got delayed. it covered the period 1992 to 1997. the ninth five year plan covered the period from 1997 to 2002. the tenth plan covered the period from 2002 to 2007. the eleventh plan covered the period from 2007 to 2012. the twelfth five year plan initiated in 2012 with a focus on faster more...
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Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher Published this article page no 8 reforms and reconstruction are often undertaken. generally there are two approaches to planning i.e. sectoral planning and regional planning. the sectoral planning means formulation and implementation of the sets of schemes or programmes aimed at development of various sectors of the economy such as agriculture irrigation manufacturing power construction transport communication social infrastructure and services. there is no uniform economic development over space in any country. some areas are more developed ...
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Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher Published this article page no 9 this type of planning is termed as regional planning. target area planning the planning process has to take special care of those areas which have remained economically backward. as you know the economic development of a region depends upon its resource base. but sometimes resource-rich region also remain backward. the economic development also requires technology as well as investment besides the resource. with the planning experience of about one and half decades it was realised that regional imbalances in e...
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Buy and subscribe here Competition refresher Published this article page no 10 some of the examples of programmes directed towards the development of target areas are command area development programme drought prone area development programme desert development programme hill area development programme. the small farmers development agency sfda and marginal farmers development agency mfda which are the examples of target group programme. in the 8th five year plan special area programmes were designed to develop infrastructure in hill areas north-eastern states tribal areas and backward ...