FOURTH FIVE-YEAR PLAN ANDHRA PRADESH (1969-70 to 1973-74) OUTLINE AND PROGRAMMES PLANNING AND CO-OPERAT[ON DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH 25-S' A CONTENTS —0— PART I—OUTLINE Pages Introdaction 1—2 Resouxes of Andhra Pradesh 3— 13 Reviev o f Economic Situation .. 14—27 Approach and objectives 28—53 Fourtl Five-Year Plan; An outline 53—73 Development of backward Regions 74— 138 Employment 139 Financial Resources .. 145 TABLES [— State income at Current and Constant prices. 152 II—Production o f principal crops in Andhra Pradesh 153 III—Index numbers of Agricultural production in A.P 154 lY—Land utilisation in Andhra Pradesh... 155 V—Additional Irrigation potential created under Five Year Plans in Andhra Pradesh. 156 VI—Cropping pattern in A.P. 157 VII—Registered Factories and Employment in A.P. 158 VIII—Distribution of registered factories by range of Employment A.P. 159 IX—Monthly average production of selected Indus­ tries in Andhra Pradesh. 160 X—Index numbers of Industrial production in And­ hra Pradesh. 162 XI—Mineral production in Andhra Pradesh. 163 Pages XII—Index numbers of Mineral production in Andhra Pradesh. .. .. .. 1641- XIII—^Joint Stock Companies at work in A.P. ., 1655 XIV—Power Statistics A.P, .. .. .. 1665 XV—Employment in Andhra Pradesh (1961 to 1969). 1677 XVI—Registrations and Placements at Employment Exchange in Andhra Pradesh. .. .. 1688 XVII—Industrial Situation in Andhra Pradesh. .. 1699 XVIII—Index numbers o f whole sale prices in Hyderabad city (Base August 1959-100) .. .. 1700 XIX—Consumer prices index numbers for industrial wor­ king class at selected centres in Andhra Pradesh. 1711 XX —Select socio-economic characteristics for A. P. Vis-a-vis All India. .. .. .. 1722 X XI—Statement showing the allocation of Plan outlay in Andhra Pradesh since its formation (1956-74) .. 1733 XXII—Perspective of Investment & Income in A. P. .. 1744 XXIII—Sectoral outlays proposed by Planning Commission and State Government .. ... .. 1755 XXIV— Sectoral distribution o f the outlay and the region- wise break up. .. .. .. 18B1 XXV—Allocations under Special Develpment Programme o f Rayalaseema .. .. .. 1832 XXVI—Allocations under Special Development Programme of Coastal Andhra .. .. .. 18-84 XXVII—Programme for the utilisation of Rs. 43.72 Crores for Telangana .. .. .. .. 18S5 XXVIII—Provision in the IVth Plan for sectors included in the Special Programme for Telangana .. .. 18?89 XXIX—Additional Taxation measures introduced during the Second and Third Plans. .. .. 19<90 XXX—Additional taxation in 1966— 67 to 1968— 1969. .. 19;92 lU Pages PART II—SECTORAL PROGRAMMES 1. Agriculture 1—26 2. Minor Irrigation .. 27—34 3. Soil Conservation and Land Development 35—39 4. Ayacut Development 40—46 5. Animal Husbandry 47—57 6. Dairying and Milk Supply .. 58—66 7. Forests « 6 7 -7 4 8. Fisheries 75—79 9. Warehousing and Marketing 80—83 10. Co-operation 84— 102 11. Community Development 103— 105 12. Irrigation 106-133 13. Power 134— 157 14. Large and Medium Industries 158— 169 15. Village and Small Scale Industries 170— 179 16. Mineral Development 180—189 17. Handlooms 190-195 18. Roads and Road Transport 196—209 19. General Education 210—220 20. Technical Education 221-225 2U Medical Services 226—236 22. Public Health 237—241 23. Urban Water Supply and Drainage 242-249 Pages 24. Rural Water Supply , 250— 254 25. Housing .. .. .. ,. 255—261 26. Welfare of Scheduled Tribes.. .. .. 262—273 27. Welfare of Scheduled Castes and other Backward Classes .. .. .. .. 274—278 28. Social Welfare .. .. .. .. 279—282 29. Craftsmen Training and Employment Schemes .. 283—285 30. Statistics .. .. .. ., 286 Part I—Outline INTRODUCTION The National Development Council decided in 1967 that the Forth Five-Year Plan should be formu­ lated for the pe’riod 1969-74. With reference to this, the Planning Commission suggested in February, 1968 that the States may undertake a review of economic development and also take preliminary steps for for­ mulating a Plan. Accol-dingly, we constituted 12 Working Groups for formulating the State’s Fourth Plan. The aggregate of the outlays recommended by these Working Groups came to Rs. 628 crores. It was subsequently decided that we should make in the State Plan special provision for Ch'ronically Drought Affec­ ted Areas, Metropolitan Areas and Tribal Areas. In order to provide fol* this, the outlay of the State’s Draft Fourth Plan was raised to Rs. 650 crores and a Draft Outline of the State’s Plan conforming to this outlay was prepared and presented to the Planning Commission in October, 1968. The draft proposals were considered by the Central Working Groups in October, 1968, and by the State Ad­ visory Committee in November, 1968. On the basis of the discussions of the Central Working Groups the outlay on the Plan came to about Rs. 651 crores. There were discussions with the Planning Commission for finalising the outlay on the State’s Fourth Five-Year Plan in January, 1969 and subsequently in November- December, 1969. In the Draft Memorandum on the Fourth Five-Year Plan presented to the National Deve­ lopment Council in March, 1970, the size of our State’s Fou'rth Plan was shown by the Planning Com­ mission as Rs. 420.50 crores, comprising of Rs. 240 crores Central assistance and Rs. 180.50 crores State resources. In June, 1970, the Planning Commission communicated the sectoral distribution of this outlay. The State Government could not howevel* finalise the Fourth Plan for the outlay of Rs. 420.50 crores indi­ cated by the Planning Commission, since it would not have been possible to fulfil even the minimum spill­ over commitments within an outlay of this order. Considering the constraint of resources, the original SP/4I2^1 2 p’roposals were revised with a view to reducing the outlay to the maximum extent possible while fulfiling the inevitable spill-over commitments. As a result of this exercise, it was decided in November, 1970 that the outlay on the State’s Fourth Five-Year Plan would have to be at least Rs. 530 crores if the existing com­ mitments were to be fulfilled. Consequently detailed review of the schemes included in the draft proposals was again taken up and revised proposals for an outlay of Rs. 530 crores were formulated which are included now in the present document. It will be seen from the chapte'r on Resources that an outlay of the order of Rs. 530 crores is in execess of the available resources according to the present assessment. The outlay on the Fourth Plan in the first three years comes to Rs. 266 crores leaving an outlay of 264 clrores for two years which comes to about 50 per cent of the total outlay. If we take into conside­ ration the spill-over commitments on the one hand and the constraint of resources on the other, it will be evident that the outlay in the last two years of the Fourth Plan cannot decline so much as to restrict the total outlay to the amount already approved by the Planning Commission, nor can it be stepped up so niuch as to be able to reach a total outlay of Rs. 530 crores. However, a more definite view of what can reasonably be expected to be the final outlay on the Fourth Plan can be taken only after the outlay on the Annual Plan 1972-73 is known. It is, therefore, pro­ posed to take up a 'reapraisal of this Plan as soon as the Annual Plan for 1972-73 is finalised. RESOURCES OF ANDHRA PRADESH The year 1956 would go down in the history of the Andhras as most memorable for, during that year, the new State of Andhra Pradesh came into existence consequent on the States’ Re-organisation Act, bring­ ing more than 30 million Telugu-speaking people unde'r one composite administrative unit. Andhra Pradesh with an area of more than 106,000 square miles and a population of about 36 millions (1961—in 1971 it is about 43 million) is the fifth largest and the fourth most populous State in the Indian Union. The State is situated in a tropical region between 13°N to 20°N and 77°E to 85 °E. It is bounded on the East by the Bay of Bengal, on the North-East by O'rissa and Madhya Pradesh, on the North by Maharashtra, on the West by Mysore and on the South by Madras State. The State has a long coast line of 600 miles running from Ichapuram taluk in Srikakulam District in the NoHh to Sulurpet taluk in Nellore District in the South. There are seven working ports in the State including one major po'rt, i.e., Visakhapatnam and two inter­ mediate ports (Kakinada and Masulipatnam). Visa­ khapatnam is the only major port between Calcutta and Madras with an excellent natural harbour, whose hinterland stretches into Madhya Pradesh and O'rissa. Manganese and Iron ore exports constitute a major part of the shipments from Visakhapatnam. The ports of Kakinada and Masulipatnam have a rich hintertand comprising Coastal Andhra Pradesh producing agri­ cultural commodities and minerals. 2. The State is divided into 20 districts for adminis­ trative purposes. (In 1971 Ongole district was formed making it 21 districts). Naming the districts in a clockwise order from the north-east, they are Srikaku­ lam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godava'ri, Krishna, Guntur, (now Ongole also), Nellore, Chittoor, Cuddapah. Anantapur, Kurnool, Mahbubnagar, Hyder­ abad, Medak, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal, Khammam and Nalgonda districts. The State of Andhra Pradesh came into being by tagging on the Telugu speaking districts of the erstwhile Hyderabad State with the Andhra State that had already been formed out of the old composite Madras State, It is usual to refer to the region constituted by the 9 districts of Mahbubnagar, Hyderabad, Medak, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, WarangaL Kham- mam and Nalgonda drawn from the erstwhile Hyder­ abad State as the Telangana region.