Annual Plan Size for Jharkhand finalised at 16300 Crore Rupees

The Annual Plan for Jharkhand for the fiscal year 2012-13 finalised at 16300 crore rupees. The plan size was finalised at a meeting between Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Arjun Munda in New Delhi on 6 August 2012.

Discussing the progress made by the state government the Planning commission noted that the total literacy rate in Jharkhand has improved from 54.13 percent in 2001 to 67.63 percent in 2011. But it is still lower than the National Literacy Rate of 74.04 percent in 2011. As per census 2001 the gender gap in literacy was 28.4 percent. In 2008 this gap was reduced to 27.31 percent (As per NSS data).

The overall GSDP growth rate of Jharkhand reached at the peak level of 20.5 percent in 2007-08 which turned negative at -1.7 percent in 2008-09 and subsequently improved to 5.0 percent and 6.0 percent respectively in 2009-10 and 2010-11. The growth of agriculture sector was 5.6 percent in 2007-08 and which significantly improved to 16 percent in 2008-09 but again came down to 1.8 percent in 2009-10. The growth rate of agriculture sector however improved to 7.7 percent in 2010-11. Similarly the growth rate of industry sector was very high at 44.7 percent in 2007-08 which suddenly dipped to -2.4 percent in 2008-09 and also remained at low level of 0.8 percent in 2009-10 and -0.1 percent in 2010-11. The growth of service sector has been good compared to the Primary and Secondary sectors. The growth rate of the services sector was 12.3 percent, 8.8 percent, 9.7 percent and 9.9 percent respectively in 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11.

The Per Capita income of Jharkhand at 1999-2000 (constant) prices increased from 15303 rupees in 2007-08 to 16294 rupees in 2008-09 but was still lower than the all India per capita income of 25494 rupees in 2008-09. The Per Capita Net State Domestic Product of Jharkhand was 22902 rupees in 2011-12 compared to 38005 rupees All India Per Capita NDP.


The focus during the 12th plan would be on catching up with the rest of country in human development indices and continuing efforts to create investment friendly environment. Road transport, health care and education would also be given special attention. Besides, the State would pursue an ambitious plan of 10 per cent growth in the 12th plan in order to double per capita income by 2016-17. Target for the growth of agri sector pegged at 6.5 percent while growth target for industries pegged at 12.5 percent.