Fourth Five-Year Plan (1969-74)

The period between 1966 and 1969 was the period of annual plans. The industrial period could not make much progress during the annual plans period. During the fourth Five-Year Plan there was much emphasis on the agro-based industries such as sugar, cotton, jute, vanaspati, metal-based, and chemical industries. It was during this plan when much progress was made in alloys, aluminium, automobile-tyres, electronic goods, machine tools, tractors, and special steel. Efforts were also made to accelerate the process of industrial dispersal.