Subject(s): Plans -- Unemployment -- Planning in kerala -- Objectives of planning- poverty eradication, planning in other countries , employment, economic growth, challenges, agriculture, financial limitations of government, public sector, new development strategies, 7th five year plan -- Backward sections in society,production, possibilities of planning, resource collection, 8th five year plan, industries,, forest development, education, health, decentralized planning -- Local planning and people's participation, suggestions of Sen committee,