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(1950-1990)
1) planning commission
2) agriculture policy
3) industrial policy
4) foreign trade policy
Economic Planning
1st Five Year plan: 1st April, 1951 to 31st March, 1956.
i. Growth
ii. Modernization
iii. Self-reliance
iv. Equity
Growth
Modernisation
Modernization includes:
Self Reliance
Increase in
per capita
National income Progress in
availability of
and per capita Agriculture
consumer goods
income
Industrial Licensing
1. Employment Generation
2. Need for protection from big firms (so
reservations of product and concessions are
given by government)
3. MSME
Low productivity
Disguised Unemployment
High dependency on Rainfall
Subsistence Farming
Outdated Technology
Conflicts between Tenant and Landlords
Small Land Holdings
LAND
REFORMS
POLICIES OF
GROWTH OF
AGRICULTURE
GREEN
REVOLUTION
Land Reforms
Abolition of Intermediaries
Land Ceiling
Consolidation of Landholdings
Regulation of rent
Abolition of Intermediaries:
Land Ceiling
Green Revolution
ECONOMISTS IN ECONOMISTS
FAVOUR OF AGAINTS
SUBSIDIES SUBSIDIES
Agriculture is Huge burden
still a Risky on govt.
Business Finances
The majority
of Farmers are Subsidies do
very poor not benefit
poor farmers
as benefit
Eliminating would go to
subsidies will fertilizer
increase industry and
income wealthy
inequalities farmers
Foreign Trade
Import substitution
Year Event
1948 First Industrial policy Resolution
1950 Setting up of planning commission
1951 Launch of 1st five year Plan
1951 Industries (Development and
Regulation) Act
1955 Karve Committee or Village & small-
scale Industries Committee
constituted
1st April,1951 to 31st March, Duration of First Five year plan
1956
30th April, 1956 Second Industrial Policy Resolution
1966 First phase of Green revolution
1991 New Economic Policy
2015 Planning commission replaced by
NITI Aayog