Explain in detail the Seventh Five Year Plan.
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Answer:
1985-90
Explanation:
The Seventh Five-Year Plan was led by the Congress Party with Rajiv Gandhi as the prime minister. The plan laid stress on improving the productivity level of industries by upgrading of technology.
The main objectives of the Seventh Five-Year Plan were to establish growth in areas of increasing economic productivity, production of food grains, and generating employment through "Social Justice".
As an outcome of the Sixth Five-Year Plan, there had been steady growth in agriculture, controls on the rate of inflation, and favourable balance of payments which had provided a strong base for the Seventh Five-Year Plan to build on the need for further economic growth. The Seventh Plan had strived towards socialism and energy production at large. The thrust areas of the Seventh Five-Year Plan were: social justice, removal of oppression of the weak, using modern technology, agricultural development, anti-poverty programmes, full supply of food, clothing, and shelter, increasing productivity of small- and large-scale farmers, and making India an independent economy.
Based on a 15-year period of striving towards steady growth, the Seventh Plan was focused on achieving the prerequisites of self-sustaining growth by the year 2000. The plan expected the labour force to grow by 39 million people and employment was expected to grow at the rate of 4% per year.
Some of the expected outcomes of the Seventh Five-Year Plan India are given below:
Balance of payments (estimates): Export – ₹330 billion (US$4.8 billion), Imports – (-)₹540 billion (US$7.8 billion), Trade Balance – (-)₹210 billion (US$3.0 billion)
Merchandise exports (estimates): ₹606.53 billion (US$8.8 billion)
Merchandise imports (estimates): ₹954.37 billion (US$13.8 billion)
Projections for balance of payments: Export – ₹607 billion (US$8.8 billion), Imports – (-) ₹954 billion (US$13.8 billion), Trade Balance- (-) ₹347 billion (US$5.0 billion)
Under the Seventh Five-Year Plan, India strove to bring about a self-sustained economy in the country with valuable contributions from voluntary agencies and the general populace.
The target growth rate was 5.0% and the actual growth rate was 6.01%. and the growth rate of per capita income was 3.7%.