(a) whether the Planning Commission has finalised the Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five
Year Plan (2007-2012);
(b) if so, the broad features thereof;
(c) the names of priority sectors and the targets fixed thereunder; and
(d) the estimated budget for achieving these targets?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING (SHRI M.V. RAJASEKHARAN)
(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) TO (d) OF LOK SABHA
STARRED QUESTION NO.203 REGARDING APPROACH PAPER TO ELEVENTH
PLAN BY SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA AND SHRI SUNIL KHAN, DUE FOR
ANSWER ON 6TH DECEMBER, 2006
(a)& (b): Yes, Sir. The draft Approach Paper to the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007-2012), has
been approved by the Full Planning Commission for consideration of the National Development
Council. The draft Approach Paper to the Eleventh Plan as finalized by the Planning
Commission aims at faster and more inclusive growth. It targets faster growth in all productive
sectors, agriculture, industry and services, with suitable interventions in policy, infrastructure
and technology. It seeks to achieve inclusiveness through significant improvements in
literacy/education and health, greater employment opportunities and more focus on various
socio-economic groups.
(c): The monitorable Socio-Economic Targets proposed in the draft Approach Paper are
annexed.
(d): The budget estimates for achieving the targets have not been decided. Annexure referred to in the Reply
to part (c) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 203 slated for 6/12/2006 regarding Approach Paper to Eleventh Plan
Monitorable Socio-Economic Targets of the 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 drop out 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 villages 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.