Kerala State Planning Board: first constituted in September 1967 with Chief Minister E. M. S. Namboothiripad as Chairperson

Background

The State Planning Board was first constituted in September 1967 with Chief Minister E M S Namboothiripad as its Chairperson.
Four non-officials and four officials were nominated as Members; M K Hameed was Vice Chairperson and Member for Industries and Infrastructure, with T P Kuttiamu (Irrigation) and Prof Joseph Mundassery (Education and Social Services) among the Members.
The Board was constituted for the formulation and evaluation of the State's Plan programmes on a scientific basis, and the Bureau of Economics and Statistics gave it research, library and administration facilities.
It was assigned the task of preparing the Annual Economic Review and undertook the preparation of the draft Fourth Five-Year Plan for the State.
In October 1968 it convened a Seminar whose papers and conclusions were published as Alternative Policies for the Fourth Five-Year Plan.
The Board was reconstituted in 1969 with Chief Minister C Achutha Menon as Chairperson, and that Board gave the State's Fourth Five-Year Plan (1969-1974) its final shape.