Eleventh Five-Year Plan (2007–2012)

The objectives of eleventh five year plan are:

Income and Poverty

• Speed up GDP growth from 8 percent to 10 percent. Subsequently sustain at 10 percent in the 12th Five Year Plan so as to double the per capita income by 2016 – 17
• Augment agricultural GDP growth rate to 4 per annually to make sure a broader stretch of benefits
• Create 70 million new work prospects
• Trim down educated unemployment to below 5 percent
• Elevate real wage rate of untrained workers by 20 %
• Decrease the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10 %

Education

• Diminish dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2 percent in 2003 – 04 to 20 percent by 2011 – 12
• Build up minimum standards of educational achievement in elementary school & by standard testing monitor efficiency of education to guarantee quality
• Augment literacy rate for persons of 7 years of age or above to 85 percent
• Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 %
• Amplify the percentage of each legion to higher education from the present 10 percent to 15 percent by the end of plan

Health

• Diminish maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births and infant mortality rate to 28
• Decrease Total Fertility Rate to 2.1
• Supply clean drinking water for all by the year 2009. Make sure that there are no repositions
• Decrease malnutrition among children of age group 0 – 3 to half its present level
• Condense anaemia among girls and women by 50 percent by the end of the plan

Women & Children

• Elevate the sex ratio for age group 0 to 6 years to 935 by 2011 – 12 & to 950 by 2016 – 17
• Make sure that at least 33 % of the indirect and direct beneficiaries of all government schemes are girl and women children
• Make sure that all children benefit from a safe childhood, without any obligation to work

Infrastructure

• Make sure electricity connection to all villages
• Make sure all - weather road connection to all habitation with population 1000 & above by 2009

Environment

• Increase forest cover by 5 %
• Achieve WHO standards of air class in all major cities by 2011 – 12
• Treat all urban waste water by year 2011 – 12 to clean river waters

Target growth during eleventh five year plan was 8.4% and Growth achieved was 7.9%.

Find Information on:

Twelfth Five-Year Plan (2012–2017)

Ninth Five-Year Plan (1997–2002)

Eighth Five-Year Plan (1992–1997)

Seventh Five-Year Plan (1985–1990)