(a) whether the Government has fixed State specific targets under the
Eleventh Five Year Plan;
(b) if so, the details thereof;
(c) the details of annual review of the said targets conducted by the Government;
(d) the name of the States lagging behind the said target; and
(e) the measures taken/being taken in respect of the States lagging
behind the targets?
MINISTER OF STATE FOR PLANNING, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AND EARTH SCIENCES
(DR. ASHWANI KUMAR)
(a) to (e): The Eleventh Five Year Plan has been formulated in a manner
whereby 13 of the 27 monitorable national targets have been disaggregated into
appropriate targets for individual States.
These are: (i) GDP growth rate (ii) Agricultural growth rate (iii) New work
opportunities (iv) Poverty ratio (v) Drop out rate in elementary schools
(vi) Literacy rates (vii) Gender gap in literacy rate (viii) Infant Mortality
Rate (ix) Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) (x) Total Fertility Rate
(xi) Child malnutrition (xii) Anaemia among women and girls and (xiii) Sex-ratio.
The data on these targets are compiled by different sources such as Central
Statistical Organization (CSO), District Institutes of Education and Training
(DIETs), National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Sample Registration System (SRS),
District Level Health Survey (DLHS) and also in different periodicity, which
is then reviewed. The data for all indicators is not available uniformally
for all States every year.
Different States are lagging behind their respective targets in one or
the other monitorable indicators based on available data sources. The
11th Plan target and present status based on available data for selected
monitorable targets is given at Annexure-I. During the Working Group
discussions for State Annual Plans, the progress made by the States in
different areas mentioned above is discussed and the States/UTs are advised
to make their best efforts towards achieving these targets.