Draft Eighth Five Year Plan (1990-95) and Annual Plan 1991-92 Vol. I Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

This chapter describes some of the salient features of state’s economy, the main problems facing the state in its development and the directions in which the economy is being transformed. A brief review of state’s seventh plan has also been given towards the end of the chapter. Population Growth Uttar Pradesh is the most populous and fourth largest State in the country. the state comprises 9 per cent of the area and 16.2 percent (1981) of the population of the country. During 1971-81, the state’s population recorded an increase of 25.5 percent, yielding by an annual growth of 2.3 per cent as against substantially lower corresponding figures of 19.8 per cent.