FIVE YEAR PLANS: (Important facts from First to Eleventh five year plan)

1) FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN (1951 -56)

SHORTCUT: SIPCOT

S – SOCIAL SERVICE

I – INDUSTRY

P – POWER

Co – Communication

T – Transport

2) Second five year plan (1956 -61)

SHORTCUT : MADRAS

M – Mahalanobis Model

A – Atomic Energy Commission

D – Durgapur steel company, Tata Inst of Fundamental Research

R – Rourkela Steel Company, Rapid Industrialisation

A – Agriculture

S – Socialistic Pattern of Society

3) Third five year plan (1961-66)

SHORTCUT : SAD

S – Self Reliance

A – Agriculture

D – Development of Industry

5) Fifth five year plan (1974-79)

SHORTCUT : PSTM (Persons Studied in Tamil Medium)

P – Poverty Eradication

S – Self reliance

T – Twenty Point Programme

M – Minimum Need Programme

6) Sixth five year Plan (1980-85)

SHORTCUT : MAIL

M – Management

A – Agriculture production

I – Industry production

L – Local Development Schemes

7) Seventh Five year plan (1985-90)

SHORTCUT : EFGH (the alphabets)

E – Employment generation

F – Foodgrain production was doubled

G – Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (1989)

H – Hindu rate of Growth

8) Eighth Five year plan (1992-97)

SHORTCUT : LPG

L – Liberalisation

P – Privatisation

G – Globalisation

9) Ninth five year plan (1997-2002)

SHORTCUT : ESPN

E – Employment for Women, SC’s and ST’s

S – Seven Basic minimum service

P – Panchayat Raj Institutions, Primary Education, Public Distribution System

N – Nutrition Security

11) Eleventh five year plan (2007 -2012)

SHORTCUT : TEACHERS

T – Telecommunicatons (2G)

E – Electricity, Environment Science

A – Anemia

C – Clean water

H – Health education

E – Environment Science

R – Rapid growth

S – Skill Development