Progress of the Plan a Short Survey of the Working of the Five Year Plan from April 1951 to September 1953

Abstract

In India the central aims of planning are set by the character of her long-term problems—increasing population, continued low productivity of land, low rates of capital formation and per capita income, excessive dependence on land and the imbalance between agriculture and industry, slow economic progress and persistence and growth of inequalities in the distribution of wealth and income. All these are different facets of what is commonly called the problem of Indian poverty.