The document summarizes Pakistan's First Five Year Plan from 1955-1960. The objectives of the plan were to raise national income, standard of living, balance of payments, employment opportunities, and social services. Priority was given to agriculture and industry. Targets included a 15% increase in national income. The plan aimed to add schools and teachers to work towards universal primary education. However, the plan faced issues with delayed approval, lack of government support, shortfall in funding, underperformance in agriculture, and distorted education priorities.

3. Presented to
Dr. Abid Hussain Ch
Submitted by
Mamoona Shahzad
MP/2012-27

5. A PLAN
• 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 and education.

6. BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF FIVE YEAR
PLANNING IN PAKISTAN
• The first five year plan was made in 1955 and
from that time to up till now eight five year
plan have been made in history of Pakistan
after regular intervals.1970-1978 was the only
period when no five year plan was
implemented. Tenth five year plan is going to
be implemented from 2010. No ninth plan is
made in history of Pakistan.

7. Detail of plans is given
below
• First five year plan
(1955-1960)
• Second five year plan
(1960-1965)
• Third five year plan
(1965-1970)
• Fourth five year plan
(1970-1975)
•Fifth five year plan
(1978-1983)
•Sixth five year plan
(1983-1988)
•Seventh five year
plan
(1988-1993)
•Eighth five year plan
(1993-1998)

8. FIRST FIVE YEAR PLAN (1955-
1960)
The First Five Year Plan was launched two and a half
years late in December 1957.
Size of Plan:
• The size of plan was Rs.11, 500 Million which was
revised to Rs.10, 800 Million.
• It was decided to invest Rs.7, 500 Million in public
sectors and Rs.3, 300 Million in Private sector.
• Rs.66, 000 Million were decided to finance by internal
sources and Rs.42,000 Million by external sources.

9. Objectives
 To raise national income and per capita income
 To raise the national income and the standard of living of the people
 To improve the balance of payments of the country by increasing
 exports and by production of substitutes for imports
 To increase the opportunities for useful employment in the country
 To make steady progress in providing social services; housing,
 education, health and social welfare
 To increase rapidly the rate of development, especially in East
 Pakistan and other relatively less developed areas
 In first five year plan highest priority was given to the agriculture sector
and the industrial sector

10. Targets
• Increase in national income by 15%
• Increase in population by 7%
• Increase in Balance of payment by 15%
• 60% increase in production of industrial sector
• Rehabilitation and renovation of Railway
• Increase in savings from 5 to 7 %
• 1 Million Additional children to be admitted to primary
schools
• and 1,44,000 to be put in secondary schools

11. • It proclaimed that a system of universal
primary education is imperative.
• The Plan proposed to add 4000 new
schools to the 15,602 already in
existence in the country. 6 additional
schools were also proposed to be built
under the Village-AID programme.

12. • The number of trained primary teachers were
to be increased from about 75,000 to about
118,500 raising the percentage of trained
teachers in primary schools from about 65 to
85 percent.
• These additions were estimated to increase
school enrolment by about 600,000 to one
million children, and raise the primary
enrolment rate from 43 to 49 percent.

13. • It was claimed that “The foundations laid
for primary education during this plan
period will permit a rapid advance on a
sound and confident basis towards the
goal of universal free compulsory
primary education”.

14. East
Pakistan
Government
West
Pakistan
Government
Central
Government
Total
Primary Education 51.66 49.96 2.90 104.52
Seconday Education 84.97 66.68 3.27 154.92
Teacher Education 14.85 23.34 ….. 38.20
Technical
14.23 27.85 8.47 50.55
Education(including
engineering)
Colleges(including
talent scheme)
41.46 34.76 7.26 83.47
Universities 28.86 38.69 19.88 87.43
Overseas
2.41 2.28 .51 5.20
scholarships
Scholarships for
special area
….. .30 ….. .30

15. East
Pakistan
Government
West
Pakistan
Government
Central
Government
Total
Social and cultural
activities
….. 5.21 .23 8.34
Council of Scientific
and Industrial
Research
2.90 ….. 28.30 28.30
Labour training
centers
….. ….. 17.86 17.86
Central Archives and
Records Offices
….. ….. 1.09 1.09
Council of Social
Science Research
….. ….. .52 .52
Total 241.34 219.07 90.29 580.70

16. Achievements
• National income increased to 13%
• Unemployment situation worsened
• 5.6% fall in export index
• Industrial production increased by 42.36%
• 400 thousand children actually admitted to
primary schools and
• 195 thousand in secondary schools.
• Literacy rate declined from 18% to 15%

17. Critical overview
• The plan did not receive formal approval from government until
1957 and never received full support from government.
• Planning machinery was not effective. It failed to highlight the
importance of 5 year planning to the government as well as
public.
• Financial resources available for development fell short of
expectations.
• The most disappointing feature of plan was the failure in the key
agriculture sector.
• No definite weight age was given to the objective of plan.
• Education priorities were distorted in favor of higher education.
• Performance was less encouraging in transport sector.

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