IMPORTANT ECONOMICS DATES!!!! hope it helps
ALL IMPORTANT DATES
**Indian Institutions & Acts**
1934 — RBI Act passed
1935 — RBI established (April 1)
1948 — RBI nationalised
1982 — NABARD established (July 12)
**International Monetary System**
1944 — Bretton Woods Conference (IMF & World Bank conceived)
1945 — IMF & World Bank formally established
1947 — GATT signed (effective 1948)
1995 — WTO formed (January 1, replaced GATT)
**Indian Planning & Poverty**
1950 — Planning Commission established
1951 — First Five Year Plan begins
1956 — Second FYP
1961 — Third FYP
1966–69 — Plan Holiday (3 Annual Plans)
1969 — Fourth FYP
1974 — Fifth FYP
1978 — Sixth FYP (Janata govt, scrapped)
1980 — Sixth FYP (Congress, actual)
1985 — Seventh FYP
1992 — Eighth FYP
1997 — Ninth FYP
2002 — Tenth FYP
2007 — Eleventh FYP
2012 — Twelfth FYP (last)
2015 — NITI Aayog replaced Planning Commission
1962 — Study Group on Poverty (Pitambar Pant, Perspective Planning Division)
1979 — Task Force on Poverty (Planning Commission — calorie-based poverty line)
**Indian Poverty & Employment Schemes**
1977 — Food for Work Programme launched
1980 — NREP (National Rural Employment Programme)
2005 — MGNREGA enacted
2014 — Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (August 28)
**Indian Industry & Corporates**
1907 — TISCO (Tata Iron & Steel Co.) founded, Jamshedpur
1932 — Tata Airlines founded (became Air India 1946, nationalised 1953)
1899 — Indian Stamp Act
**Five Year Plans — Start Years**
India: 1951, 1956, 1961, 1969, 1974, 1980, 1985, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, 2012
China: 1953 (1st FYP), 1958 (Great Leap Forward), 1966 (Cultural Revolution begins, ends ~1976)
Pakistan: 1955 (1st FYP), 1960 (2nd FYP)
**Economic Reforms**
1991 — India LPG Reforms (July, Manmohan Singh budget)
1978 — China reforms begin (Deng Xiaoping, Open Door Policy)
1988 — Pakistan liberalisation begins (IMF-backed)
**Infrastructure & Demographic**
1853 — First railway in India (Bombay to Thane, April 16)
1869 — Suez Canal opened
1921 — India's "Year of Great Divide" (death rates begin falling, demographic transition Phase 2 starts)
1970s — Phase 3 of demographic transition (birth rates begin falling)