12th Five
Year Plan (2012-17)
The
main theme of the 12th Plan is ‘faster, sustainable and more inclusive
growth’.
Keeping
in view of the slowdown of the economy in the recent past, the
overall growth target of 9% originally envisaged
by the GoI for the 12th Plan has been revised to 8.2%.
Accordingly,
the sectoral growths targets have been revised as follows.
Agriculture to
4%,
Industry
to 8.1%
Services
sectors to 9.1%.
The
12th Plan document outlined the following 25 most important monitorable
indicators.
Economic
Growth
1.
Real GDP Growth Rate of 8.2
per cent.
2.
Agriculture
Growth Rate of
4.0 per cent.
3.
Manufacturing Growth Rate of 10.0 per cent.
4.
Every State must have a higher average growth rate in the XII Plan than that
achieved in the Eleventh Plan.
Poverty
and Employment
5.
Head-count
ratio of consumption poverty to be reduced by 10 percentage points over the preceding estimates
by the end of XII Plan.
6.
Generate 50 million
new work opportunities in the non-farm sector and provide skill
certification to equivalent numbers during the XII Plan.
Education
7 Mean Years of Schooling to increase
to seven years by the end of XII Plan.
8
Enhance access to higher education by creating two million additional seats for
each age cohort aligned to the skill needs of the economy.
9
Eliminate gender and social gap in school enrolment (that is, between girls and
boys, and between SCs, STs, Muslims and the rest of the population) by the end
of XII Plan.
Health
10.
Reduce IMR to 25
and MMR to 1 per 1000 live
births, and improve Child Sex
Ratio (0-6 years) to 950 by the end of the XII Plan.
11.
Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1 by the end of XII Plan.
12.
Reduce under-nutrition among children aged 0-3 years to half of the NFHS-3
levels by the end of XII Plan.
Infrastructure
13.
Increase investment in infrastructure as a percentage of GDP to 9 per cent by
the end of XII Plan.
14.
Increase the Gross Irrigated Area from 90 million hectare to 103
million hectare by the end of XII Plan.
15.
Provide electricity to all villages and reduce AT&C losses to 20 per cent
by the end of XII Plan.
16.
Connect
all villages with all-weather roads by the end of
XII Plan.
17
Upgrade national and
state highways to the minimum two-lane standard by the end of XII
Plan.
18.
Complete Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors by the end of XII
Plan.
19.
Increase rural tele-density to 70 per cent
by the end of XII Plan.
20.
Ensure 50 per cent of rural population has access to 55 LPCD piped drinking
water supply and 50 per cent of gram panchayats achieve the Nirmal Gram Status
by the end of XII Plan.
Environment
and Sustainability
21.
Increase green cover (as measured by satellite imagery) by 1
million hectare every year during the XII Plan.
22.
Add 30000 MW of
renewable energy capacity in the XII Plan.
23.
Reduce emission intensity of GDP in line with the target of 20 per cent to 25
per cent reduction by 2020 over 2005 levels.
Service
Delivery
24.
Provide access to banking services to 90 per cent Indian
households by the end of XII Plan
25.
Major subsidies and welfare related beneficiary payments to be shifted to a direct cash
transfer by the end of the XII Plan, using the Aadhar platform with linked bank
accounts
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