Fourth Five-Year Plan Preliminary Memorandum Governement of Orissa

Abstract

Reduction in disparities in the levels of development of different regions of the country is an accepted major objective of Planning in India. Another major objective is Administration of the rate of growth with a given order of investment. In practice, in areas lacking in suitable investment opportunities, these two principles conflict with each other. Fortunately for Orissa, nature has resolved this conflict by providing the State with mineral, forest and water resources in an abundant measure, Orissa presents a picture of immense-upper Lenities of profitable investment on the one hand and a pressing need for raising the levels of living of the people on the other. That Orissa is one of the least developed parts of the country does not need much proving. Whether it is the consumer' expenditure per capita, or income per capita or any other indicator of the pattern of production,. services and economic activities” generally, Orissa’s place in the list of the States in the Union is invariably among the last