- Significance of Planning in Economic Development
- Historical Context
- Early efforts towards economic planning in India
- Dadabhai Naoroji and the Quest for Economic Justice
- M. Visvesvaraya and the Call for National Planning
- Influence of Soviet Planning (1928) and Great Depression
- Congress Resolution and Provincial Autonomy (1935-1937)
- National Planning Committee (NPC, 1938)
- The Bombay Plan and Industrialization (1944)
- People’s Plan
- Sarvodaya Plan and the Gandhian Vision
- Early efforts towards economic planning in India
- Brief overview of India’s economic challenges post-independence
- Establishment of the Planning Commission
- Five Year plans
- First Five-Year Plan (1951-1956)
- Second Five-Year Plan (1956 – 1961)
- Third Five-Year Plan (1961 – 1966)
- Plan holidays (1966- 1969)
- Fourth Five-Year Plan (1969 – 1974)
- Fifth Five-Year Plan (1974 – 1978)
- Rolling Plan (1978-1980)
- Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980 – 1985)
- Seventh Five-Year Plan (1985 – 1990)
- Annual Plans (1990-91 & 1991-92)
- Eighth Five-Year Plan (1992 – 1997)
- Ninth Five-Year Plan (1997 – 2002)
- Tenth Five-Year Plan (2002 – 2007)
- Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007 – 2012)
- Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012 – 2017)
- India’s shift towards market-oriented reforms in the 1990s
- India’s economic situation in the early 1990s
- Overview of liberalization, privatization, and globalization policies
- Liberalization
- Privatization
- Globalization
- Outcomes of LPG Reforms
- Unintended outcomes of the LPG reforms
- Premature Deindustrialization and Growth of Services in India
- Criticisms of the Planning Commission
- Formation of NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India)
- Structure of NITI Aayog
- Features of NITI Aayog
- Comparison of Planning Commission and NITI Aayog
- Achievements of NITI Aayog
