Objectives of First Five Year Plan
The first five-year plan was developed in the years from 1951 to 1956, in order to encourage and enhance the agricultural sector of the country. The major focus behind the first Five Years plan was to handle agriculture development. Some of the objectives of the first five-year plan were as follows:
- Controlling inflation
- Rehabilitation of the farmers with no land
- Employment guarantee
- Enhanced production
- Trying to increase the per capita income
- Provide shelter as well as food supply to the refugees
- Reducing the dependency on the foreign exchanges
- Improving the efficiency of the primary sectors.