Five Year Plans for Health in India

Five Year Plans:

'The investment in different plan periods under the family welfare programme is shown in the following List. Plan-wise outlays under the Family Welfare Programme. The Tenth Five Year Plan, covering the period 2002 to 2007, represents another step in the evolution of development planning in India.

There is a visible shift in the focus of development planning from the mere expansion of services to planning of enhancement of human well-being.

Period (Years)     Outlays

First plan (1951-56)      0.65

Second plan (1956-61)  5.00

Third plan (1962-66)     27.00

Annual plans ((1966-69)         82.90

Fourth plan (1969-74)   285.80

Fifth plan (1974-78)      285.60

Annual plans (1978-80) 228.00

Sixth plan (1980-85)     1309.00

Seventh plan (1985-90) 2868.00

Annual plans (1990-92) 1424.00

Eighth plan (1992-97)   6195.00

Ninth plan (1997-2002) 14170.00

Tenth plan (2002-07)     27125.00

Annual plan (2002-03)  4930.00

The targets of Tenth Five-year plan for the plan period and beyond are: Reduction in the decadal rate of population growth between 2001 to 2011 to 16.2 percent

Reduction in infant mortality rate to 45 per thousand live births by 2007 and 28 by 2012.

Reduction in maternal mortality ratio to 2 per thousand live births by 2007 and 1 by 2012.

Planning Commission:

In March 1950, the Government of India had set up a Planning Commission to promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people by efficient exploitation of the resources of the country, increasing production and offering opportunities to all for employment in the service of community.

Health, being an important contributory factor to national development, the Planning Commission gave due importance to health and established a separate Division in the Planning Commission for the formulation of the health programmes to be included in the nations Five Year Plans. A Bureau of Planning was also constituted in 1965 in the Union Health Ministry to secure better coordination between the Centre and State Governments. For purposes of planning, the health sector has been divided into the following sub-sectors:

Control of communicable diseases

Medical education, training and research.

Medical care including hospitals,

dispensaries and primary health centres.

Public health services.

Family Planning Indigenous system of medicine.