Eighth Five Year Plan 1992-97 Maharashtra State Part I

Abstract

With the VIII Plan period commencing from the year 1992-93 the country would launch upon a Five Year Plan period which would in may ways be different from the Plans of the past. This Plan is being prepared against the background of a macro economic crisis of unprecedented dimensions and a programme of economic reform and structural adjustment with human face which has been undertaken by the Government of India. The measures initiated by the Govt. of India constitute a watershed in the economic history of independent India. The economic reforms adopted by the Govt. of India are bound to get reflected in different aspects of the development process. The Thrust of the Eighth Five Year Plan is on employment generation, containment of population growth, universalisation of elementary Education and eradication of illiteracy, self-sufficiency through enhanced agricultural production, as also strengthening of infrastructure facilities i.e. energy, transport and communication and irrigation, with a view to support a sustained growth process. The Government of Maharashtra is adopting, in right earnest, policies that are in keeping with the Government of India's emphasis on liberalization. The State Government proposed an outlay of Rs. 20, 298 crores for the State's Eighth Five Year Plan. This, according to the State Government, could have achieved the objectives of the plan to a larger extent. However, the Planning Commission, after taking into consideration the resources, approved an outlay of Rs. 18520 crores.