Question

State whether the following statement is True or False.
The 10th Five Year Plan was not so successful.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A True

Since 2002, when the Plan was operational, close to 40,000 farmers and landless labourers have committed suicide. The average growth rate of the sector during the preceding five years has been less than the population growth rate in rural India. And there is a real danger of food security. During the Plan, the State increasingly abdicated some its core responsibilities towards the poor. The totally wrong notion that only market driven policies will help, completely dominated the implementation of the Plan. No wonder, the 400 odd million Indians who remained out of the purview of the market remained exactly where they were: desperately poor and teetering on the edge of starvation. When it comes to education and health care, the performance of successive Five Year Plans has been worse than pathetic. The tenth Plan was no different. About 400 million Indians were functionally illiterate when the Plan was launched in 2002. Though accurate numbers are hard to come by, the number of functionally illiterate Indians has all probably gone beyond 400 million