7th five year plan

1. 7TH FIVE YEAR PLAN
PRESENTED BY:
MEGHA ROY
203511

2. INTRODUCTION
 Led by the Congress Party with Rajiv Gandhi as the Prime Minister when Dr. Manmohan Singh was
Deputy chairman of planning commission.
 Stress was more on improving the productivity level of industries by upgrading of technology.
 This plan was under the approval of the National Development Council in India.
 The Plan aimed at accelerating food grain production, increasing employment opportunities &
raising productivity with focus on ‘food, work & productivity’.
 The plan was very successful as the economy recorded 6% growth rate against the targeted 5% with
the decade of 80’s struggling out of the’ Hindu Rate of Growth’.

3. OBJECTIVES
 Decentralization of planning and full public participation in development.
 Removal of poverty and reduction in income disparities.
 The maximum possible generation of productive employment.
 Self-sufficiency in food at higher level of consumption.
 Higher level of social consumption, particularly in education and health and other basic amenities.
 A higher degree of self-reliance through export promotion and import substitution.
 Improved capacity utilization and productivity.
 Efficiency, modernization and competition in industry.
 Integration of science and technology into the main stream of development planning.

4. FOCUS AREAS
 The Seventh Plan had strived towards socialism and energy production at large.
 The thrust areas of the Seventh Five-Year Plan were:
• Social Justice,
• Removal Of Oppression Of The Weak,
• Using Modern Technology,
• Agricultural Development,
• Anti-poverty Programmes,
• Full Supply Of Food,
• Clothing And Shelter,
• Increasing Productivity Of Small- And Large-scale Farmers,
• And Making India An Independent Economy.

5. MAJOR PLANNING OUTCOMES
 Agriculture
 Employment
 Reduce Poverty
 Productivity
 Infrastructure
 Human Resource

6. AGRICULTURE
1. Increase in production and promoting
agriculture.
2. Expansion system of food security
3. Rise in per capita consumption
4. Regionally balanced agriculture
5. Enhance incomes of farmers
6. Emphasis on more even and balanced
distribution of agricultural growth, will also
help to reduce regional disparities.
EMPLOYMENT
• Faster employment opportunities than labour force.
• Employment programmes:
1. National rural employment programme
2. Rural landless employment guarantee programme
• Funding to improve private sectors

7. POVERTY
REDUCTION
1. Removal of poverty
was always the main
concern.
2. Eradicating the
problems of backward
class and more
vulnerable class.
3. Perception of needs and
priorities.
PRODUCTION
1. Utilizing and upgrading the present assets (agricultural and industrial)
2. Measures to increase cropping potential:
• Coordinated approach irrigation
• Drainage
• Land use management
3. Implementing new developments:
• Micro-electronics
• Informatics
• Telematics
• Biotechnologies
• Material sciences
• Oceanography
• Space technology

8. INFRASTRUCTURE
1. To avoid shortage of power, transport
and coal.
2. Significant boost in energy supply in
private sectors.
3. Improvise on energy in rural areas.
4. Minimum needs programme- biogas,
smokeless chullahs.
HUMAN RESOURCE
1. Facilitate development in human potential:
• Self respect
• Self reliance
• Dignity
2. Human development programmes were based on:
• Education
• Primary health care
• Clean and adequate drinking provision.
• Sanitation
3. Measures to ecological balance and preservation of environment.

9. ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES
 During the plan period there was 3.23 per cent increase in productivity.
 In order to increase employment opportunities and to reduce poverty, along with other ongoing programmes, some
special programmes such as “JAWAHAR ROZGAR YOJNA” were also introduced.
 In this case, the importance of small industries and food processing industries was also given due recognition.
 The average annual growth rate in the GDP during this plan period remained at 5.6 per cent which was 0.6 per cent
more than the target.
 The final year of the seventh plan (1989-90) saw the growth of national income by 4% which was largely a
contribution of secondary (manufacturing) and service sector.
 The annual average growth of the seventh plan has been put at 5.3%, almost equally the growth rate of the sixth
plan.
 The food grains produced (172 million tonnes) during the 7th five year plan was a little short of the target set (180
million tonnes).

10. EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Some of the expected outcomes of the Seventh Five Year Plan India are given below:
 Balance of Payments (estimates): Export - Rs. 33 thousand crore,
Imports - (-)Rs. 54 thousand crore,
Trade Balance - (-)Rs. 21 thousand crore
 Merchandise exports (estimates): Rs. 60,653 crore
 Merchandise imports (estimates): Rs. 95,437 crore
 Projections for Balance of Payments: Export - Rs. 60.7 thousand crore,
Imports - (-) Rs. 95.4 thousand crore,
Trade Balance- (-) Rs. 34.7 thousand crore

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