Third Five Year Development Plan (1965-70)

The main objectives and targets of the Third Five Year Plan were as under:

1. To enhance the pace of national development and to increase the gross domestic product (GDP) as much as 37%.
2. To increase per capita income at the rate of 20 %
3. To provide employment to 5.5 million people
4. To accelerate the pace of agricultural growth and to increase it at the rate of 5% annually.
5. To increase the industrial growth at the rate of 13% annually
6. To prefer the establishment of basic industries.