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In this paper an attempt is made to summarise the importance assigned to and the thinking on the problem of employment in the successive five-year plans of India. The discussions on employment and unemployment appearing at various places in each of the plan documents are brought together here.

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Austin Robinson P. R. Brahmananda L. K. Deshpande

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Varma, R. (1983). Employment Goals in the Five-Year Plans of India. In: Robinson, A., Brahmananda, P.R., Deshpande, L.K. (eds) Employment Policy in a Developing Country A Case-study of India Volume 2. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06646-9_2

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