PLANNING COMMISSION(INDIA)

Five Year Plans of India

Introduction of Planning Commission

Formed

Dissolved

15 March 1950

17 Aug 2014

Headquarters Yojana Bhavan, New Delhi

Website www.planningcommission.gov.in

Footnotes Now replaced by New institution known as NITI Aayog

Important Dates

• 1938 – Congress President and Indian National Army Supreme leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, who had been persuaded (Induced) by Meghnad Saha to set up a National Planning Committee.

• M. Visvesvaraya chosen as head of committee, but then Meghnad Shah approached the great engineer and requested him to step down. He argued that planning needed a reciprocity between science and politics. So, Sir M. Visvesvaraya agreed.

• Then, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was made head of the National planning committee.

• 1944 - ‘British Raj’ so called established a planning board that functioning from 1944 to 1946.

Five Year Plan (India)

1. First five year plan: 1951 – 1956

Five Year Plan (India)2. Second five year plan: 1956 – 1961

Five Year Plan (India)3. Third five year plan: 1961 – 1966

Five Year Plan (India)4. Plan Holiday:1966 – 1969

Five Year Plan (India)5. Fourth five year plan: 1969 – 1974

Five Year Plan (India)6. Fifth five year plan: 1967 – 1974

Five Year Plan (India)

7. Rolling Plan: 1978 – 1980

Five Year Plan (India)8. Sixth five year plan: 1980 – 1985

Five Year Plan (India)9. Seventh five year plan: 1985 – 1990

Five Year Plan (India)

Annual Plan: 1990 – 91 1991 – 92

• Eighth five year plan could not take place due to volatile political situation at the centre.

Five Year Plan (India)10. Eighth five year plan: 1992 – 1997

Five Year Plan (India)11. Ninth five year plan: 1997 – 2002

Five Year Plan (India)12. Tenth five year plan: 2002 – 2007

Five Year Plan (India)13. Eleventh five year plan: 2007 – 2012

Five Year Plan (India)14. Twelfth five year plan: 2012 – 2017 running

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