The Employment Strategies of the Indian Five-Year Plans: Reasons for their Failure

Brahmananda Prasad
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Brahmananda Prasad: University of Patna

Chapter 1 in Employment Policy in a Developing Country A Case-study of India Volume 2, 1983, pp 363-395 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The central objective of economic planning, in India, was ‘to initiate a process of development which would raise living standards and create new opportunities for a richer and more varied life’. (Govt. of India, 1952, p. 7). Poverty and unemployment which were widespread and often extreme, were India’s chief problems. Indian plans were fully alive to the problem of unemployment and adopted various strategies for its solution. These strategies are discussed below, under the appropriate plan heading.

Keywords: Plan Period; Planning Commission; Employment Potential; Plan Document; National Sample Survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06646-9_1

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