Highlights of 11th Five Year Plan of India

Income and Poverty
● GDP growth target of 9% p.a.
● Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year.
● To enhance domestic investment from 35•9% of GDP in 2006-07 to an average of 36•7% of GDP in plan period.
● To raise industrial growth rate from 9•2% in the 10th plan to between 10% and 11%.



● Manufacturing sector is targeted to grow at 12% p.a.
● Create 58 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
● To raise public health spending to 2% of GDP during plan period.
● 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 by the end of the plan.
● 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
● To achieve telecom subscriber base of 600 million and a rural teledensity of 25%.
● 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.