Duration – 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2007.

 Objectives and Aims:

1. Development rate was targeted at as 8%. 

2. Poverty ratio to be brought down to 19.34%. 

3. Providing fruitful employment to the labour force. 

4. To make primary education universal. 

5. To reduce the population growth rate to 16.2%. 

6. To achieve literacy percentage of 75%. 

7. To reduce infant mortality and maternal mortality rate. 

8. To provide drinking water facility to almost all villages by 2012. 

9. To make all the rivers pollution-free.

Priorities: In 10th five – year plan, the topmost priority was given to energy. 

Apart from this, the list of priorities are given below:

1. Social welfare services (22.8%). 

2. 20.1% expenditure on agricultural and financial activities. 

3. To emphasize on balanced development. 

4. Improvement of e-governance, creating healthy environment for investors by reducing the barriers in internal trade and to make panchayats strong in terms of financial and economic perspective. 

5. To emphasize on asset development program for eradication of poverty. In 10^th five – year plan, the total expected social expenditure was Rs. 15,92,3000.00 crore, however the actual expenditure done was to Rs. 15,25,630.00 crore.

Result and Possibilities: The 10^th five – year plan focused on social welfare programs, improvement in standard of living, sufficient food availability, education, health, drinking water facility, cleanliness, etc. The perspective of planning seemed to be bonafide, visionary, and transformational.

Evaluation of development in agriculture, biotechnology and health, increase in public investment, improved policies for financial instruments for center and states, to remove regional dissimilarity and backwardness was done in the mid-term evaluation of 10^th five – year plan.