Third Five-Year Plan of Madhya Pradesh 1961-62 to 1965-66 Part I A Draft Outline

Abstract

Madhya Pradesh is the biggest State of the Indian Union. It covers an area of 1,71,052 sq. miles or 12.79 per cent of the total area of the Union. Its population according to 1951 Census, is 261 lakhs; i.e. about 7.3 per cent of the country’s population, out of which 230 lakhs, i.e. 88 per cent inhabit the rural areas. Nearly 78 per cent of the total population has agriculture and allied occupations as the main source of livelihood About 84 lakhs of the population consists of scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and other backward classes.