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Historical Event on 5/8/1992

Eighth Plan outlay increased to Rs. 7,98,000 crores; Public Sector outlay goes up to 45\%.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/9/1992The government agrees to set up a Joint Parliamentary Committee to enquire into the security scam.
1/30/1785Sir Charles Metkaff, governor general of East India Company, was born.
3/16/1946India calls Attlee's independence offer contradictory, 'a propaganda move'.
8/21/2000Mahatma Gandhi's daughter-in-law Mrs. Nirmala Gandhi dies in Wardha. She was 91.
5/12/1992Ms. Santosh Yadav (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) becomes the second Indian woman to set foot atop Mt. Everest.
1/7/1859The Bahadur Shah II case trial was started, which ended on March 29.
1/27/1984First unit of Atomic Energy Production Centre started at Kalpakkam.
3/15/1998Mr. Vajpayee is appointed Prime Minister. The number of MPs supporting the formation of a government by the BJP stands at 264 in a house of 539, just short of the working majority of 270. However, the President sees the figure as crossing the half-way mark as the Telugu Desam decides to remain neutral. Earlier, the Congress(I) conveys to the President its decision not to stake claim to form a government.
3/28/1998The BJP-led alliance survived its first test of trust with the support of Chandrababu Naidu's Telgu Desam Party. Jayalalitha continues to call the shots.
11/7/1912Chithira Tirunal Bala Rama Varma, social reformer, was born at Travancore.