Trick to Remember Five Year Plan India 
1. First Five Year Plan (1951 -56)
SHORTCUT: ThePICS
T - Transport
P - POWER 
I - INDUSTRY
C - Communication
S - SOCIAL SERVICE
2. Second five year plan (1956 -61)
SHORTCUT : MADRAS
M - Mahalanobis Model 
A - Atomic Energy Commission 
D - Durgapur steel company, Tata Inst of Fundamental Research
R - Rourkela Steel Company, Rapid Industrialisation 
A - Agriculture 
S - Socialistic Pattern of Society
3. Third five year plan (1961-66)
SHORTCUT : SAD
S - Self Reliance 
A - Agriculture 
D - Development of Industry
5. Fifth five year plan (1974-79)
SHORTCUT : POSTMAN
P - Poverty Eradication
S - Self reliance 
T - Twenty Point Programme 
M - Minimum Need Programme
6. Sixth five year Plan (1980-85)
SHORTCUT : MAIL
M - Management
A - Agriculture production
I - Industry production
L - Local Development Schemes
7. Seventh Five year plan (1985-90)
SHORTCUT : EFGH (the alphabets)
E - Employment generation
F - Foodgrain production was doubled 
G - Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (1989)
H - Hindu rate of Growth
8. Eighth Five year plan (1992-97)
SHORTCUT : LPG
L - Liberalisation 
P - Privatisation
G - Globalisation
9. Ninth five year plan (1997-2002)
SHORTCUT : ESPN
E - Employment for Women, SC's and ST's 
S - Seven Basic minimum service
P - Panchayat Raj Institutions, Primary Education, Public Distribution System 
N - Nutrition Security
11. Eleventh five year plan (2007 -2012)
SHORTCUT : TEACHERS
T - Telicomunicatons (2G)
E - Electricity, Environment Science
A - Anemia 
C - Clean water 
H - Health education 
E - Environment Science
R - Rapid growth 
S - Skill Development