Annual Plan 1984-85 Orissa (Draft)

Abstract

Economic Background: The country as well as the State are now preparing to enter into the final year of the Sixth Plan. The first three years of the plan put considerable strain on the general economy of the State because of frequent visit of natural calamities which were responsible for abnormal decline in agricultural production and significant reduction in industrial production due lo drastic power shortage. The Sixth Plan was launched while the State was reeling under acute food shortage, accumulated poverty, unemployment serious economic erosion due to severe drought of 1979-80.