Friday, December 5, 2008

Eleventh plan (2007-2012)

The eleventh plan has the following objectives:
1. Income & Poverty
o Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10% and then maintain at 10% in the 12th Plan in order to double per capita income by 2016-17
o Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year to ensure a broader spread of benefits
o Create 70 million new work opportunities.
o Reduce educated unemployment to below 5%.
o Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 percent.
o Reduce the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10 percentage points.
2. Education
o Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12
o Develop minimum standards of educational attainment in elementary school, and by regular testing monitor effectiveness of education to ensure quality
o Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or more to 85%
o Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage points
o Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15% by the end of the plan
3. Health
o Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births
o Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1
o Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009 and ensure that there are no slip-backs
o Reduce malnutrition among children of age group 0-3 to half its present level
o Reduce anaemia among women and girls by 50% by the end of the plan
4. Women and Children
o Raise the sex ratio for age group 0-6 to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-17
o Ensure that at least 33 percent of the direct and indirect beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children
o Ensure that all children enjoy a safe childhood, without any compulsion to work
5. Infrastructure
o Ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL households by 2009 and round-the-clock power.
o Ensure all-weather road connection to all habitation with population 1000 and above (500 in hilly and tribal areas) by 2009, and ensure coverage of all significant habitation by 2015
o Connect every village by telephone by November 2007 and provide broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012
o Provide homestead sites to all by 2012 and step up the pace of house construction for rural poor to cover all the poor by 2016-17
6. Environment
o Increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.
o Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12.
o Treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river waters.
o Increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points by 2016-17.

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