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EAR P U R ,Vf.RNMENT OF GUJARAT 1989-74 DRAFT I. /' Uk ^1*^’ ■Mix GOVERNMENT OF GUJARAT General Administratioii D^srtmeBt ( Planning ) FOURTH FIVE YEAR PLAN ( 1969- 74) DRAFT AUGUST 1969 Sub. Katicrsal Systems Unit, K ^ion ^ Insti";ite of Educational Pkniiu-^ I'. i ministration 17.B.SiiAurbiEdo Marg,NewDelhi-110016 m e . N o ........... .............. ............. D a te . PREFACE Ifl the twenty-fourth meeting of the National Development Council held on December, 1st: and 2nd, 1967, it was decided that the Fourth Five Year Plan should covp the period 19^9-70 to 1973-74 and the three year period 1966-67 to 1968-69 should be treated as Anmual Plans period. Accordingly, the proposals for the State’s Fourth Five Year Plan 1969*74 were formulated by the State Government and discussed with the Planning Commis sion in December, 1968.. The Fourth Plan is being as a broad frame-work, and the operative Plans will be the Annual Plans widriii the frame-work of the Fourth Plan, The outlay for the Staite’s Draft Fourth PkBl as finalised after discussion with the Planning Commission is placed at Rs. 450^3^ crores. A broad frame-work of the Draft Fourth Plan is given in the following piflges. Sachivalaya, Ahmedabad, > L. R. DALAL, 1st, August 1%9. Qhief Secretary. TABLE OF C0HTENTS I tb m s D b so r Cp tio ^ Paob Noe, CHAPTERS I Introduction .. n Eighteen Years of Planning in Development in Districts .. 21 IV Third Five Year Plan and Annual Plans — A broad review of selected 39 V Approach to the Fourth Plan , . .. 4T VI Special Problems of the State . , . •. 55 V n Welfare of Weaker Sections . ,. 72 V n i People’s Participation . .. .. 78 IX Organisation, Administration and Manpower Planning 82 X Sectoral Programmes . 88 {S'iATEM£NT8 Statbmcbnt I —Sectoral outlays and expenditure—Third Five Year Plan (1961-66) 160 Statemknt II —Sectoral outlays and expenditure—1966 to 1969 .. 162 Statkhent II-A—Selected groupwise outlays and expenditure—-1966 to 1969 .. 164 Statembnt III —Sectoral outlays proposed for the Fourth Plan 171 SxATEiCBNT ni-A —Selected groupwise outlays for the Fourth Plan .. 173 SxATEMXirr III-B—^List of schemes included in the Fourth Plan 179 Statekknt IV —^Important projects costing Bs. 5 crores and above .. 247 STATBHxnn? V —rList of centrally sponsored schemes proposed in the Fourth Plan 249 Sta tem en t VI —Physical programmes 273 APPENDICES A p p e n d ix ‘A ’ —Selected indicators of development . 283 A p p e n d ix ‘B ’ —^Targets for selected programmes proposed in the Fourth Plan.. 286 B etween Ma PS Paoes (1) Gujarat—Agriculture, 1967-68 .. 92— 93 (2) Gujarat — Livestock and Aninml Husbandry, 1967-68 102—103 (3) Plan showing command area of Narmada Project (as recommended by Khosla Committee) 110— 111 (4) Plan showing eonomand area of Ukai Project (including comnoand area of KijErapar 112—113 Project). (5) Plan showing command area of Kadana Project (including command area of Mahi 114— 116 Stag© I Project). (6) Gujarat— Industries and Power, 1967-68 . 118— 119 (7) Gujarat — Gross output in Large factories, 1965 . .122— . 123.. (8) Gujarat — Mining, Industries and Transport, 1966*67 . ■ . 130—131 (9) Gujarat — Health and Education, 1967-68 . 140_141 (Bk) H 20—(i) ii C P ^ fB irT S iTBoes DhbsosipziOn Bexwisen P a o s s CHARTS (1) Grawtb6£population ^ 9 - ~ I 8— 9 (§} State in (x ^ m . •■•j ' ■• (3)' Plipi e:q^diture V-*i f - ;; 9*' ■A • 11 (if Frodudium (rf’^fooi^giraitta : > . wi , •' ■'1'^ ^ / :i (]S) Froduotloin of ground-nut aad Mtton « ..... 1 ^ 11 7 (6) Power development ... le— 17 0 f Edooation . , • • 18^ I t (8> Ck}*opemtion . 108^109 ( # Leng^ o fm d a ... *, 1 3 ^ 1 ^ -v.-r \ ^ ^ (iM Beds iiir institutions « 144— 145 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The Gujarat State was formed on 1st May, 1960 as a result of the bifurcation of the former Bombay State. The State is situated on the west coast of India between 20*1 and 24*7 degree north latitude and 68-4 and 74*4 degree east longitude, The boundaries of the State abut Arabian Sea in the West, Pakistan in the North, Rajasthan in the North- East, Madhya Pradesh in the East and South-East and Maharashtra in the South. Adniiiiistrati?e DiTisions 2. Administratively the State is divided into 19 districts viz. (i) Ahmedabad (ii) Amreli (iii) Kutch (iv) Kaira (v) Gandhinagar (vi) Jamnagar (vii) Junagadh (viii) Dangs (ix) Panchmahals (x) Banaskantha (xi) Broach (xii) Bhavnagar (xiii) Mehsana (xiv) Rajkot (xv) Baroda (xvi) Bulsar (xvii) Sabarkantha (xviii) Surat (xix) Surendranagar. The Districts are further divided into Talukas/Mahals numbering 184 in all. Area and Popnlation 3. The State has an area of 187091 sq. kilometres which is 5*7 per cent of the area of the Indian Union. Its population according to 1961 census, is 2-06 crores living in 181 towns and 18,584 villages. The population of the State forms 4-7 per cent of the popula tion of the Indian Union. The density of population of the State is 110* per sq. km, as com pared to 134* per sq. km. for the Indian Union. The urban population of the State accounts for 25 -77 per cent of the total population of the State ; the corresponding percentage for the Country is 18, which shows that the degree of urbanisation in Gujarat is higher than the average for the Country. Agriculture provides employment to 68*09 per cent of the working population. The corresponding percentage for the Country as a whole is 69-52. A large per centage of the workers in the State as compared to that in the Country is engaged in mann-' facturing industry, the percentages for Gujarat and India being 6*32 and 4*23 respectively. Nearly one-fifth population of the State consists of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The scheduled castes account for 6*63 per cent of the total population of the State, while scheduled tribes account for 13*35 per cent of the total. The scheduled tribes population of the State accounts for 9*60 per cent of the scheduled tribes population of the country as a whole. Physico-Geographical Conditions 4. Gujarat can be considered to represent two distinct physico-geographic regions which are (i) Gujarat Main Land and (ii) Peninsular Gujarat. Gujarat Main Land can be further sub-divided into North, Central and South Gujarat Plains, whereas iPeninsular Griijarat can be sub-divided into Saurashtra and Kutch. * The density figures are based on area as revised from 1-1-1966 and population according to 1961 o^nous. (Bk) H.20—1 5. Geographically, Gujarat includes (i) the main land forming the valleys of the Sabarmati, Mahi, Narmada and Tapi rivers flowing from east to west and converging towards the gulf of Cambay, (ii) peninsula of Saurashtra and (iii) the area of the Rann and the sub-region of Kutch. Th§ area of the plains to the south located between the sea and the Western Ghats beyond the Damanganga river is rather narrow and widens gradually towards the north. 6. With the Aravalli ranges running to its north, Gujarat Main Land is separated by an arc of irregularly-shaped high lands extending from Palanpur to the north to the Satpuras to its east, which form the water divide between the Tapi and the Narmada and separate the State from the Khandesh tract of Maharashtra. Enclosed by these ranges at its borders is the Gujarat alluvial plain drained by a fan of four major systems, the Sabarmati, Mahi, Ni^ripaiJa and Tapi. The main land Gujarat thus forms an arc of low lands backed by the hilly chains of Madhya Pradesh. The alluvial valleys are built up and developed by the ajpuvium deposits of these rivers, the Sabarmati and Mahi in particular which are fed by the catchment extending over IsHrge areas of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The level nature of the plain is broken at places by detached hills Uke the Pavagadh and Rajpipla, the larger part of the plateau being deeply intersected by streams and estuaries of the four major rivers. Salt marshes, sandy belts, and gravel patches mark the topography of the coastal regions, while the even nature and fertility of the plain is influenced by water erosion. 7. Joined to the main land by a neck of low-lying land, Peninsular Gujarat or Saurashtra i$ conspicuous in rehef on account of its low hills alternating with tiny alluvial basins. Apart from peaks and cliffs, which are part of Aravalli system, there are two masses of hills in the central and southern tracts of peninsula, giving rise to an almost perfect radial drainage pattern. Rann of Kutch lying at the northern end is a vast expanse of tidal mud flats, flacked with saline efflorescences. 8. The average rainfall in the areas of the State varies from 33 to 152 centimetres or 13 to 60 inches. On the basis of average annual rainfall, the nature of rainy season and scarcity conditions, the regional features of the State can be summarised as follows ;— (a) South Gujarat : ( Dangs, Panchmahals, Baroda, Broach, Sabarkantha, Surat and Bulsar).—The rainfall varies between 76 and 152 centimetres or 30 and 60 inches except in some parts of Dangs lying on the borders of Thana district of Maharashtra where rainfall is around 190 centimetres or 75 inches. (b) North Gujarat: (Ahmedabad, Kaira, Gandhinagar, Banaskantha, and Mehsana).—The rainfall varies between 51 and 102 centimetres or 20 and 40 inches. (c) Saurashtra.—The south central high lands of the peninsula and Cambay gulf regions generally have rainfall of 63 centimetres or 25 inches and over.