Objectives of 11th five year plan of India?

Answer 1

The eleventh plan has the following objectives:

1. Income & Poverty

§ 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

§ Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year to ensure a broader spread of benefits

§ Create 70 million new work opportunities.

§ Reduce educated unemployment to below 5%.

§ Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 percent.

§ Reduce the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10 percentage points.

2. Education

§ Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12

§ Develop minimum standards of educational attainment in elementary school, and by regular testing monitor effectiveness of education to ensure quality

§ Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or above to 85%

§ Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage point

§ Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15% by the end of the plan

3. Health

§ Reduce Infant Mortality Rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births

§ Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1

§ Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009 and ensure that there are no slip-backs

§ Reduce malnutrition among children of age group 0-3 to half its present level

§ Reduce anemia among women and girls by 50% by the end of the plan

4. Women and Children

§ Raise the sex ratio for age group 0-6 to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-17

§ Ensure that at least 33 percent of the direct and indirect beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children

§ Ensure that all children enjoy a safe childhood, without any compulsion to work

5. Infrastructure

§ Ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL households by 2009 and round-the-clock power.

§ 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

§ Connect every village by telephone by November 2007 and provide broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012

§ 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

§ Increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.

§ Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12.

§ Treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river waters.

§ Increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points by 2016-17.

Answer 2

i wish you have cleared all your idea about economic planning after reading following artical: http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/Books/11/Econ-EM/Chapter_05.pdf