Sixth Plan

This Plan (1980–85) was launched with the slogan of ‘Garibi Hatao’ (alleviate poverty).72 Already, a programme (the TPP) was tested and tried by the same government in the Fifth Plan which tried to improve the standard of living of the poor masses with the ‘direct approach’ (the idea of poverty alleviation, but such a slogan of ‘Garibi Hatao’ was not given to the programme).

Some of the major issues addressed by the Plan were—emphasis on socio- economic infrastructure in rural areas; eliminating rural poverty and reducing regional disparities through the IRDP (1979); ‘target group’73 approach initiated; a number of national level programmes and schemes were launched during the plan, which tried to attend to the specific areas and the specific concerns of socio-economic development (this is the ‘target group’ approach):74‌

(i) National Rural Employment Programme (NREP)—1980

(ii) Restructured Twenty-Point Programme– 1982

(iii) Biogas Programme—1982

(iv) Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWERA)—

1983

(v) Rural Landless Employment Guarantee Programme (RLEGP)—1983

(vi) Self-Employment to Educated Unemployed Youth Programme (SEEUP)—1983

(vii) Dairy Development Programme (DDP)—1983

(viii) Village and Small Industries Development Programme (VSIDP)— 1983

(ix) Tribal Development Agency (TDA)—1983

(x) Village and Small Industries Development Programme (VSIDP)—1983

(xi) National Seeds Programme (NSP)—1983

(xii) Intensive Pulses Development Programme (IPDP)—1983

(xiii) Intensive Cotton Development Programme (ICDP)—1983

(xiv) Khadi and Village Industries Programme (KVIP)—1983

(xv) Programme for Depressed Areas (PDA)—1983

(xvi) Special Programme for Women and Children (SPWC)—1983