What was the Colombo Plan?
The Colombo Plan was a plan for Cooperative Economic Development of South and South East Asia and was conceived at a meeting of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers held in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in January 1950. The people who conceived the plan included Mr PC Spender (later Sir Percy), Australia, Mr LB Pearson, Canada, Mr DS Senanayake, Ceylon, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, India, Mr D Doidge, New Zealand, Mr Ghulam Mohammad, Pakistan and Mr Ernest Bevin of the United Kingdom. Originally, membership of the plan which was voluntary, covered Commonwealth countries but was later extended to include all the countries of South and South East Asia, the United States of America and Japan and the initial period of the plan was from 1 July 1951 until 1 July 1957. Member countries in South and South East Asia included Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Members from outside the region were Australia,
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