Programme Planning, Implementation and Evalution

PROGRAMME PLANNING, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION 2(1+1)

Lesson 27 : Five Year Plans: Objectives and Achievements

Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-12)

The eleventh plan has been launched with the following objectives.

1. Income and Poverty
• Accelerate growth rate of GDP from 8% to 10% and then maintain at 10% in the 12th Plan in order of 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 more to 85%.
• Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage points.
• Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15% by the end of 11th plan.


3. Health
• Reduce Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) to 28 and Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) 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 by the end of the 11th Plan.
• 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 11th 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 by the end of the Plan.
• Ensure all-whether 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.