Q.What is a Rolling Plan?

This plan format was designed specifically to avoid the rigidity of a fixed, unchanging Five-Year Plan.

A Rolling Plan is a plan that, instead of being fixed for one unchanging block of years, is reviewed and revised every year: each year, a new plan is announced for the next few years (e.g. the following three years), incorporating the latest data and correcting for what the previous year actually achieved, so that a current plan is always in force and the horizon keeps advancing forward. India briefly adopted a Rolling Plan between 1978 and 1980 as an alternative to the rigid Five-Year Plan format, specifically to build in more flexibility to respond to changing c …