The Sixth Five Year Plan in India aimed to accelerate economic growth, promote efficient use of resources, and improve productivity and self-reliance. The plan targeted 5.2% growth which was exceeded with an actual growth rate of 6%. It was the only plan that was implemented twice. The plan emphasized industrial development and information technology while also focusing on food self-sufficiency and advances in science, technology, and public health.
2. WHAT IS PLAN
• A Plan spells out how the
resources of a nation should be
put to use
• It should have some general
goals as well as specific
objectives which are to be
achieved with in a specified
period of time
• In India duration of plans is five
months thus it is called Five
Years Plan
3. • 6th Five Year Plan is also referred to
as the Janata Government Plan and it
was revolutionary since it marked a
change from the NehruvIan model of
Five Year Plans. The sixth five year
plan has changed a lot of things in
India.
ABOUT SIXTH PLAN
5. SOME SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
• The target growth rate was 5.2%
and the actual growth rate was
6.0%
• The only Five-Year Plan which was
done twice.
6. Why was it needed
• When Indiagained independence, its
economy wasgroveling in dust
• TheBritish had left theIndian economy
crippled and thefather of development
formulated 5 yearsplan to develop theIndian
economy
7. Who Monitors It ?
• The five years plan in India is framed,
executed and monitored by Panning
Commission Of India
• The Planning Commission was set up at
march , 1950
• With the prime minister as the ex officio
chairman.
• The commission has a nominated Deputy
Chairman who has rank of a cabinet
manager
8. AIMS OF THE PLAN
• To consolidate the gains already
achieved;
• To accelerate the pace of
implementation of land reforms and
institution building for beneficiaries;
• To extend the benefits of new
technology to more farmers, cropping
systems and regions and to promote
greater farm management efficiency
through concurrent attention to cash
and non-cash inputs;
9. • To make agricultural growth not only an instrument
of maintaining an eifective national food security
system but also a catalyst of income and
employment generation in rural areas;
• To promote scientific land wateruse patterns based
on considerations of ecology, economics, energy,
conservation and employment generation; and
• To safeguard the interests of both producers and
consumers by attending to the needs of production,
conservation, marketing and distribution in an
integrated manner.
AIMS
10. OBJECTIVES
• The objectives of the Sixth Five Year Plan
India were.
• To increase the growth rate of the
economy
• To concentrate on the promotion of
efficient use of resources
• To improve productivity level
• To initiate modernization for achieving
economic and technological self-reliance
11. • To control poverty and unemployment
• To develop indigenous energy sources and efficient
energy usage
• To promote improved quality of life of the citizens
• To introduce Minimum Needs Program for the poor
and needy with an emphasis to reduce the
discrepancies in income and wealth accumulation
• To initiate Family Planning Programs in order to
check the growing population trends
• To protect and improve ecological and
environmental assets
• To promote the education at all levels
OBJECTIVES
12. PROBLEMS FACED
• During this time the Prime Minister was Rajiv
Gandhi and hence industrial development was
the emphasis of this plan some opposed it
specially the communist groups, this slowed
down the pace of progress
13. ACHIEVEMENTS
• Speedy industrial development
• Emphasis on information technology sector
• Self sufficiency in food
• Science and technology also made a significant
advance
• Several successful programs on improvement of
public health
• Government in the Indian health sector
• Government investments in the Indian healthcare
sector