Sixth And Seventh Year Plans

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Sixth Five Year Plan (1978-80) And (1980-85)

There were two Sixth Plans. The Janata Party Sixth Plan openly praised the achievements of planning in India but held the Nehru Modelos growth responsible for growing unemployment, for the concentration of economic power in me hands of a few powerful business and industrial families, for the widening of inequalities of income and wealth and for mounting poverty. The Janata Sixth Plan sought to reconcile the objectives of higher production with those of greater employment so that millions of people living below the poverty line could benefit from it. The focus of the Janata Sixth Plan was the enlargement of the employment potential in agriculture and allied activities, encouragement to household and small • industries producing consumer goods for mass consumption and raising the incomes of the lowest income classes through a minimum needs programme. When the new Sixth Plan (1980-85) was introduced by Congress (I), the Planners rejected the Janata approach and brought back the Nehru Model of growth by aiming at a direct attack on the problem of poverty by creating conditions of an expanding economy.

Specific Objectives

  1. To achieve significantly the rate of growth in the economy by efficiently using the available resources. The plan targeted a growth rate of 5.2%.
  2. To achieve economic and technological self-reliance through modernisation.
  3. To progressively reduce the incidence of poverty and unemployment.”
  4. To conserve existing sources of energy and to develop new sources of energy.
  5. To improve the quality of life.
  6. To reduce inequalities in income and wealth..
  7.  To reduce the regional inequalities.
  8.  To control the growth of the population through voluntary adoption of small family norms.
  9. To have harmony between short term and long term goals of development and to ensure ecological and environmental balance.
  10. To promote the active involvement of people in the process of development.

Seventh Five Year Plan (1985-90)

The Seventh Five Year Plan was introduced in April 1985, after the country had enjoyed a reasonable rate of growth during the Sixth Plan. The Seventh Plan sought to emphasise policies and programmes which would accelerate the growth in foodgrains production, increase employment opportunities and raise productivity — all these three immediate objectives were regarded central to the achievement of long-term goals determined as far back as the First Plan itself. o The Seventh Plan sought to emphasize policies that would accelerate the growth in foodgrains production, increase employment opportunities and raise productivity. At this stage of development, these three more important immediate objectives were central to the achievements of the perspective goals of the Seventh Plan. Thus, the focus of the Seventh Plan was on Food, Work, and Productivity. The development strategy adopted for the Seventh Plan aimed at a direct attack on the problems of poverty, unemployment and regional imbalances.

The Plan intended to continue the various anti-poverty programmes but emphasized the fact that the anti-poverty programmes could not by themselves be expected to remove poverty on a sustainable basis. It was only in the framework of an expanding economy and a dynamic agricultural sector that a lasting impact on the problems of poverty and under-employment could be made. Besides, the Seventh Plan also envisaged the continuation and expansion of the National Rural Employment Programme (NREP) and Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)

which were started in the Sixth Plan. These programmes were expected to generate 2,458 million man-days of additional employment (9.04 million standard person-years) in rural areas. For the · removal of urban poverty, considerable emphasis on improvement in the living condition of slum dwellers had been laid in the Seventh Plan. dwellers had been laid mine seven rains iets003

Specific Objectives

  1. To decentralise planning and to ensure full participation of people w
  2. To generate maximum possible productive employment opportunities
  3. To alleviate poverty at saved be To attain self-sufficiency in foodgrains production at a higher level of consumption.
  4. To improve the quality of life voluntarily adopt small family norms.
  5. To fully utilise available capacity.
  6. To develop new sources of energy To conserve the ecological and environmental balance
  7. To integrate science with the process of development.
  8. To improve the efficiency, modernisation and competitive position of our industry.

Check out these notes on Eighth Five Year Plan (1992-1997).

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