Nehru had reviewed the progress achieved in the first two plans. Nehru said: When we began planning, India’s economy had been almost stagnant for a long time… During the first two plans, national income increased by 42 per cent. During the ten-year period the population increased by seventy-seven million, and yet there was an increase in per capita income from ₹284 to ₹330. In these ten years, agricultural production increased by 41 per cent, industrial production by 94 per cent and power by 148 per cent. Railways carried 70 per cent more goods traffic and the traffic on surface roads
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