While the success of the landmark 1991 economic reforms ensured that the Eighth Plan far exceeded its growth target, the parallel focus on human...

Riding on technological innovations, the Seventh Plan surpassed its growth target through efficient utilisation of capital but also witnessed...

Implemented amid turbulent domestic and global situations, the twin sixth plan not just managed to achieve its growth target but also put a tab on...

Fifth Five Year Plan’s fate was intercepted by deteriorating inflationary pressures and balance of payment situation, along with political instability...

Due to a series of external shocks, neither the Fourth Plan could meet its ‘ambitious’ growth target nor could it ease the inflationary pressure —...

Following an unsuccessful Third Plan, the three Annual Plans provided a breather to the economy by envisaging the launch of Green Revolution,...

Based on a ‘flawed logic’, and interspersed with two wars and a drought, the third plan — relying heavily on heavy industries and import substitution...

Continuing with the socialist framework, the third plan aimed at attaining self-sufficiency in agriculture and continuing the expansion of industry,...

Disproportionate focus on heavy industries in the second plan served contrary to the core objective of generating employment through enhanced...

Building on the success of the first plan, economic planners — emphasising on the socialist pattern — decided to rely on heavy industries for...

Although the first Five-Year Plan well surpassed the goals it had set for agriculture and irrigation in the public sector, it left urban planning and...

Contrary to the norm in the West where market drove the allocation of resources, India preferred to go with centralised planning even before the...