Subject(s): Five year plan -- Rural development programme -- Excerpts from first seven five year plans, some issues and strategies for the eighth plan -- Experts from addresses of prime minister : Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on responsive administration and panchayati raj -- Salient features of some important rural development programs : Integrated rural development program, training of rural youth for self employment, development of women and children in rural areas, national rural employment program, rural landless employment guarantee program, drought prone areas program, desert development program