Draft Eighth Five Year Plan 1992-97 and Annual Plan 1992-93

Abstract

Himachal Pradesh came into being by merger of thirty and odd princely hill states on 15th April, 1948. It underwent a. series of metamorphic changes, both political and administrative, till it became the Eighteenth State of Indian Union on 25th January, 1971. Subsequently, re-organisation of districts in 1972 gave Himachal Pradesh the shape as it exists today. Himachal Pradesh has an area of 55,673 square kilometres and according to 1991 Census a population of 51.11 lakh.