In this post we are going to share a Trick to remember main aim of India's Five Year Plan , it is very easy just follow the steps below and I hope this will really help you in your upcoming Competitive Exams.
1. First Five Year Plan (1951 -56)
SHORTCUT: ThePICS
T - Transport
P - POWER
I - INDUSTRY
C - Communication
S - SOCIAL SERVICE
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 : POSTMAN
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
10. Tenth five year plan (2002 -2007)
i. The Tenth Five Year Plan proposes schooling to be compulsory for children, by the year 2003.
ii. The mortality rate of children must be reduced to 45 per 1000 living births and 28 per 1000 living births by 2007 and 2012 respectively.
iii. All main rivers should be cleaned up between 2007 and 2012.
iv. Reducing the poverty ratio by at least five percentage points, by 2007.
v. Making provision for useful and lucrative employments to the population, which are of the best qualities?
vi. According to the Plan, it is mandatory that all children to complete 5 years of schooling by 2007.
vii. By 2007, there should be a decrease in gender discrimination in the spheres of wage rate and literacy, by a minimum of 50%.
viii. Taking up of extensive Afforestation measures, by planting more trees and enhance the forest and tree areas to 25% by 2007 and 33% by 2012.
ix. Ensuring persistent availability of pure drinking water in the rural areas of India, even in the remote arts.
x. The alarming rate at which the Indian population is growing must be checked and fixed to 16.2%, between a time frame of 2001 and 2011
xi. The rate of literacy must be increased by at least 75%, within the tenure of the Tenth Five Year Plan.
xii. There should be a decrease in the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to 2 per 1000 live births by 2007. The Plan also intended to bring down the Maternal Mortality Ratio to 1 per 1000 live birth by the year 2012.
11. Eleventh five year plan (2007 -2012)
SHORTCUT : TEACHERS
T - Telicomunicatons (2G)
E - Electricity, Environment Science
A - Anemia
C - Clean water
H - Health education
E - Environment Science
R - Rapid growth
S - Skill Development
12. Twelfth five year plan (2012 -2017)
1.Enhancing the Capacity for Growth
2.Enhancing Skills and Faster Generation of Employment
3.Managing the Environment
4.Markets for Efficiency and Inclusion
5.Decentralisation, Empowerment and Information
6.Technology and Innovation
7.Securing the Energy Future for India
8.Accelerated Development of Transport Infrastructure
9.Rural Transformation and Sustained Growth of Agriculture
10.Managing Urbanization
11.Improved Access to Quality Education
12.Better Preventive and Curative Health Care