Which Five-Year Plan aimed at accelerating food grain production, increasing employment opportunities and raising productivity with focus on 'food, work and productivity'?

Option 1 : Seventh

The correct answer is Seventh.

• The main objectives of the Seventh Five-Year Plan were to establish growth in areas of increasing economic productivity, production of food grains, and generating employment through "Social Justice".
• The Seventh Five-Year Plan was led by the Congress Party with Rajiv Gandhi as the prime minister.
  • The plan laid stress on improving the productivity level of industries by upgrading technology.
  • The main objectives of the Seventh Five-Year Plan were to establish growth in areas of increasing economic productivity, production of food grains, and generating employment through "Social Justice".
  • The Seventh Plan had strived toward socialism and energy production at large.
  • The thrust areas of the Seventh Five-Year Plan were:
    • Social justice, removal of oppression of the weak, using modern technology, agricultural development, anti-poverty programmes, a full supply of food, clothing, and shelter, increasing the productivity of small- and large-scale farmers, and making India an independent economy.
  • The target growth rate was 5.0% and the actual growth rate was 6.01% and the growth rate of per capita income was 3.7%.