how can we say that Prime Minister Nehru was a great supporter of five year plans
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As a whole, successive governments have found it hard to meet the targets set out by themselves under the Five Year Plans.
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, saw “Five Year Plans” (FYPs) as vital to the implementation of his vision of a modernised and socialist India. First introduced in 1951, FYPs comprised economic and social programmes that were centrally designed, executed and evaluated by the Planning Commission of India. FYPs were first implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union in 1928. Nehru was inspired by Stalin’s plan to industralise the Soviet Union, even though India had a combination of public and private sectors.
Over the years, India’s Planning Commission, in their efforts to generate economic growth and social equality, has prioritised different aspects of the economy based on changing contexts. For example, with the First FYP of independent India, the government aimed to meet the needs of refugees, and address food shortages and rising inflation. The government initiated the construction of dams in Damodar Valley and Hirakud (among other irrigation projects). Moreover, the government also worked with the World Health Organization to reduce infant mortality and other aspects of children’s health. Overall, the government claimed that it was able to “more or less” meet these demands by a targeted focus on agriculture, power, transport and stabilising prices. In the Fifth FYP, the Planning Commission prioritised self-reliance and poverty alleviation (through a programme called Garibi Hatao that involved conducting mass sterilisation on India’s poor in a campaign that has been heavily criticised). Moreover, by the government’s own admission, high levels of inflation rendered the plan’s financial budgeting erroneous. As a whole, successive governments have found it hard to meet the targets set out by themselves under the FYPs.
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