Third Five-Year Plan Bihar Volume I

Abstract

Efforts towards planned economic development are now more than a decade old. While these efforts were initiated by the awareness of the stagnation in the economy, which was crippling progress, the momentum for further planned action on a larger scale has been provided by the realisation that amelioration of backwardness has to be quick and pronounced, if the country is to move smoothly in a democratic manner towards the goal of economic well-being in a socialistic pattern of society. The awareness of stagnation in the economy and the need for purposeful action in this regard find mention, in fact, in the Directive Principles of State Policy embodied in the Constitution. Planned economic development is thus an article of faith enjoined by the Constitution, and having the sanction of all progressive thought in the country.