Monitorable Socio-Economic Targets of the 11th Plan
(Based on Approach Paper of 11th Plan)

  Income and Poverty

● Accelerate growth rate of GDP 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 per cent.

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

  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 the 11th Plan.

  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.

  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 per cent 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.

  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 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 village 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.

  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.

  Vision of the 11th Plan

• GDP growth rate to be increased to 10 per cent by the end of the plan.

• Farm sector growth to be increased to 4 per cent.

• Double per capita income by 2016-17.

• Create 7 crore new jobs.

• Reduce educated unemployment rate to below 5%.

• Reduce drop out rate of school children to 20% from 52% now.

• Literacy rate to be increased to 80%.

• Infant mortality rate to be reduced to 28 per 1,000 births.

• Maternal mortality rate to be cut to 1 per 1,000 births.

• Clean drinking water to all by 2009.

• Improve sex ratio to 935 by 2011-12 and 950 by 2016-17.

• Electricity connection to all by 2009.

• A telephone in every village by November 2007.

• Broadband connectivity to all villages by 2011-12.

• Roads to all villages with 1,000 population by 2009.

• Increase forest cover and tree cover by 5 per cent.

• Achieve WHO standard air quality in major cities by 2011-12.

• Treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean rivers.