Give a review of development plans in India.
Answers
At the time of the First Five-Year Plan (1951-56), India was faced with three problems – influx of refugees, severe food shortage and mounting inflation. India had also to correct the disequilibrium in the economy caused by the Second World War and the partition of the country.
Accordingly, the First Plan emphasized, as its immediate objectives, the rehabilitation of refugees, rapid agricultural development so as to achieve food self-sufficiency in the shortest possible time and control of inflation. Simultaneously, the First Plan attempted a process of all-around balanced development which could ensure a rising national income and steady improvement in the living standards of the people over a period of time (Datt and Sundharam, 2000).
Development of plans in India is now metro plans like in Pune Mumbai and security plan of India like in India