Draft Third Five Year Plan. Assam

Abstract

Its broad aims and objectives as given in the Draft National Third Five Year Plan of the Planning Commission was: (i) to secure during the next five year period a rise in national income of over 5 per cent per annum, the pattern of investment being designed also to sustain that rate of growth during the subsequent Plan periods ; (ii) to achieve self-sufficiency in foodgrains and to increase agricultural production to meet the requirements of industry and exports ; (m) to expand basic industries like steel, fuel and power, and establish machine building caoacity, so that the requirements of further industrialisation can be met within a period of ten years or so mainly from the country’s own resources ; (iv) to utilise to the fiillest extent possible the man power resources of the country and to ensure a substantial expansion in employment opportunities ; and (d) to bring about a reduction of inequalities in income and wealth, and a more even distribution of economic power.