KEY POINTS FROM FIVE YEAR
PLANS:
FIRST(1951-1956)=In 1956 UGC was established to take measure to strengthen higher
education also takes care for funding higher education.
At the end of the first five year plan period the five INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(IITs)
were started as major technical institutions.
SECOND(1956-1961):1957 was the first year when scholarships and talent programmes were
started to find young people to train and work in the nuclear power field.
THIRD(1961-1966):The third plan also emphasized the development of education .many
primary schools started in rural areas .states were made responsible for secodary and higher
secondary education.
FOURTH(1969-74):NO special recommendations.
FIFTH(1974-78):Expansion of education.In1975 INDIRA GANDHI launched twenty point
program.
. SIXTH(1980-85):On october 1980 India Government launched IRDP
.SEVENTH(1985-90):To improve education and health facility.
.EIGHTH(1992-97):Universalisation of education and eradication of illiteracy.
.NINETH(1997-02):Universal primary education ,special action plan information technology.
.TENTH(2002-07):To offer universal access to primary education by 2007
.To increase the literacy rate to 72percent within the plan period and 80 percent by 2012.
.Reduction of gender gap in literacy by at least 50percent by 2007.
.ELEVENTH(2007-12):To reduce dropout rate from 52.2percent to20 percent in 2011-12..To
increase enrolments in higher education for the age group 18-23(2011-12).Increase literacy rate
for age 7 or more .
.To lower gender gap in literacy to 10percent points.
.to empower through education and skill development.
.TWELVETH (2012-2017):To raise the average numberof years spent to school to seven.
PLANS:
FIRST(1951-1956)=In 1956 UGC was established to take measure to strengthen higher
education also takes care for funding higher education.
At the end of the first five year plan period the five INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(IITs)
were started as major technical institutions.
SECOND(1956-1961):1957 was the first year when scholarships and talent programmes were
started to find young people to train and work in the nuclear power field.
THIRD(1961-1966):The third plan also emphasized the development of education .many
primary schools started in rural areas .states were made responsible for secodary and higher
secondary education.
FOURTH(1969-74):NO special recommendations.
FIFTH(1974-78):Expansion of education.In1975 INDIRA GANDHI launched twenty point
program.
. SIXTH(1980-85):On october 1980 India Government launched IRDP
.SEVENTH(1985-90):To improve education and health facility.
.EIGHTH(1992-97):Universalisation of education and eradication of illiteracy.
.NINETH(1997-02):Universal primary education ,special action plan information technology.
.TENTH(2002-07):To offer universal access to primary education by 2007
.To increase the literacy rate to 72percent within the plan period and 80 percent by 2012.
.Reduction of gender gap in literacy by at least 50percent by 2007.
.ELEVENTH(2007-12):To reduce dropout rate from 52.2percent to20 percent in 2011-12..To
increase enrolments in higher education for the age group 18-23(2011-12).Increase literacy rate
for age 7 or more .
.To lower gender gap in literacy to 10percent points.
.to empower through education and skill development.
.TWELVETH (2012-2017):To raise the average numberof years spent to school to seven.
