9th 5 Year Plan of India

Social Work Profession

9th Five Year Plan of India Compiled By

Kartik BJames

RanjitUdayanLeo Rayan

Assignment

Madras School Of Social Work

A Plan is a deliberate attempt to spell out how the resources of a country should be put to use.

It has some general and specific goals, which are to be achieved within a specific period of time.

The general goals of a Plan are growth, modernization, full employment, self-reliance and equity. But all Plans may not give equal importance to all of them.

Each Plan can have some specific goals like improvement of agriculture. For example our first five-year plan was geared to improving the state of agriculture and the second to improving Industry. 

What is a Plan

The Planning Commission was set up in March, 1950 by a Resolution of the Government of India.

The economy of India is based on planning through its five-year plans, developed, executed and monitored by the Planning Commission . With the Prime Minister as the ex officia Chairman, the commission has a nominated Deputy Chairman, who has rank of a Cabinet minister. Montek Singh Ahluvaliya is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Commission. The tenth plan completed its term in March 2007 and the eleventh plan is currently underway.

Planning Commission of India

1. Ninth Five Year Plan of India runs had the main aim of attaining objectives like speedy industrialization, human development, full-scale employment, poverty reduction, and self-reliance on domestic resources.

2. Ninth Five Year Plan was formulated amidst the backdrop of India's Golden jubilee of Independence.

3. The main objectives of the Ninth Five Year Plan India are:• to prioritize agricultural sector and emphasize on

the rural development • to generate adequate employment opportunities

and promote poverty reduction • to stabilize the prices in order to accelerate the

growth rate of the economy • to ensure food and nutritional security

Ninth Plan (1997 - 2002)

• to provide for the basic infrastructural facilities like education for all, safe drinking water, primary health care, transport, energy

• to check the growing population increase • to encourage social issues like women

empowerment, conservation of certain benefits for the Special Groups of the society

• to create a liberal market for increase in private investments

4. During the Ninth Plan period, the growth rate was 5.35 per cent, a percentage point lower than the target GDP growth of 6.5 per cent

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