Draft Five Year Plan 1978-83

Abstract

Thirty years after independence, twenty-seven since we set out with the First Five Year Plan “to translate the goals of social and economic policy prescribed in the Directive Principles of the Constitution into a national programme based upon the assessment of needs and resources”, it is clearly time to take stock of how far we have come towards attaining these goals, to note the achievements and the shortcomings, so that we may better chart the course of the nation’s future development.