India's five year plans: complete document

The launching of the First Five Year Plan in April 1951 initiated development of the country-aiming not merely at raising the standard of living of the people, but also opening out to them new opportunities for a richer and a more varied life. This was sought to be achieved by planning for growth and social justice.

Indian economy has come a long way completing its nine Five-Year Plans and launching the 10th Five Year Plan in April, 2002.

For the benefit of the readers and researchers, Academic Foundation has brought out this publication bringing at one source all the ten documents of Five Year Plans (Planning Commission Government of India). While Volume I of the Tenth Five Year Plan, covering: Perspective, Objectives and Strategies, Macro-economic Dimensions, Employ ment Perspective, Governance and Implementation, Disaster Management, Policy Imperatives and Programmatic Initiatives-is included in this book, the complete Tenth Plan document (in three volumes) along with the other nine documents of the earlier Five Year Plans (around 10,000 pages) are given in the accompanying CD-Rom, in order to make the publication handy. Needless to say, the user-friendly CD-Rom offers inbuilt search facility, easy print-out option, along with other usual advan tages associated with the digital media.