Draft Five Year Plan 1978-83 Volume 1

Abstract

Thirty years after independence, twenty-seven since we set out, with the First Five Year Plan " to translate.... the goals of social end economic policy prescribed in the Directive Principles of the Constitution.... into a national programme based upon the assessment of needs and resources , its clearly time to take stock of how far we have come towards attaining these goals, to note the achievements and the shortcomings, so that we may better chart the course of the nation's future development.