Sixth Five Year Plan 1980-85. Goa, Daman & Diu

Abstract

The Fifth Five Year Plan (1974-79) came into force in April, 1974, and was supposed to have run the full five year period, upto March, 1979. However, the new Government which came to power at the centre in the year 1977 decided to cut short the Fifth Plan by one year and introduce a new Five Year Plan” from 1st April, 1978. Hardly the first two years of the new Plan were over when considerable political changes took place m the country resulting into the reinstallation of the Congress (I) Government at the Centre under the leadership of Mrs. Indira Gandhi This new Government discontinued the earlier Planning Commission and instead set up a new Commission which decided to scrap the Five Year Plan 1978-83 (framed by the outgoing Government), and introduce the Sixth Plan covering the five-year period 1980-85) The first two years of the Five Year Plan, 1978-83, virtually became Annual Plans for 1978-79 and 1979-80.