Mention five targets of the 3rd Five Year Development Plan.
Difficulty: Easy
Third Five Year Development Plan (1965-70)
The main objectives and targets of the Third Five Year Plan were as under:
- To enhance the pace of national development and to increase the gross domestic product (GDP) as much as 37%.
- To increase per capita income at the rate of 20 %
- To provide employment to 5.5 million people
- To accelerate the pace of agricultural growth and to increase it at the rate of 5% annually.
- To increase the industrial growth at the rate of 13% annually
- To prefer the establishment of basic industries.
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