Annual Plan 1970-71

Abstract

From Introduction: The Annual Plan for 1970-71, the second year of the Fourth Plan (1969-74), was formulated when the Fourth Plan was being finalised. To subserve the objective of making the annual plan an operative instrument of implementation, the Planning Commission issued more detailed guidelines to the State Governments and Central Ministries in respect of the Plan as a whole as also for specific sectors of development. State Governments and Central Ministries were advised to work out details of programmes, their inter-relationships and administrative measures required to be taken during the year. The quantum of Central assistance due to each State, within the overall estimates of resources for the year, was also indicated sufficiently in advance to enable a more realistic formulation of initial proposals.