This Five Year Plan document focuses on inclusive …

1 Eleventh five year plan Planning Commission Government of IndiaPublished five year plan 2007-12 This five year plan document focuses on inclusive growth. The document is divided into three volumes. Volume I: inclusive Growth details the vision, policies, and strategies of the key sectors and gives the macroeconomic framework and financing of the plan ; Volume II: Social Sector provides plans for Education, Sports, Art and Culture, Health and Family Welfare, Nutrition and Social Safety Net, Drinking Water and Sanitation, and Women and Child Rights.

2 And Volume III: Agriculture, Rural Development, Industry, Services, and Physical Infrastructure includes chapters on the respective 0009780195696509 ISBN 0-19-569650-6 Volume IInclusIVe growthEleventh five year Plan2007-12 Volume IPlanning Commission Government of IndiaEleventh five year plan (2007 2012) inclusive GrowthVolume IPlanning CommissionGovernment of India1 YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110 001 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers theUniversity s objective of excellence in research, scholarship.

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4 No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system,without permission in writing from Planning Commission, Government of IndiaISBN-13: 978-0-19-569650-9 ISBN-10: 0-19-569650-6 Typeset in Minion in 11/13by Eleven Arts, Keshav Puram, Delhi 110 035 Printed by Tara Art Printers Pvt. Ltd., NoidaPublished by Oxford University PressYMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110 001On behalf of Planning Commission, Government of India, Yojna Bhawan,Sansad Marg, New Delhi 110 0011 ForewordIndia s commitment to planned economic developmentis a reflection of our society s determination to improvethe economic conditions of our people and an affirmationof the role of the government in bringing about thisoutcome through a variety of social, economic, andinstitutional means.

5 The Eleventh five year plan , whichwas approved by the National Development Council on19 December 2007 reaffirms this commitment. Itprovides a comprehensive strategy for inclusivedevelopment, building on the growing strength of theeconomy, while also addressing weaknesses that strength of the economy is evident from theremarkable transition to a high growth path, which hasbeen achieved in recent years. The Tenth plan period(2002 03 to 2006 07) began modestly, but then saw theeconomy accelerating steadily to achieve an averagegrowth rate of , for the plan period as a whole, whichis the highest ever achieved in any plan period.

6 In thelast four years the growth rate has averaged makingIndia one of the fastest growing economies in the transition to high growth is an impressiveachievement, but we must not forget that growth is notthe only measure of development. Our ultimate objectiveis to achieve broad based improvement in the livingstandards of all our people. Rapid growth is essential forthis outcome because it provides the basis for expandingincomes and employment and also provides the resourcesneeded to finance programmes for social uplift.

7 However,it is not by itself sufficient. We also need to ensure thatgrowth is widely spread so that its benefits, in terms of Prime Ministerincome and employment, are adequately shared by thepoor and weaker sections of our society, especially theScheduled Castes (SCs) and the Scheduled Tribes (STs),Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and minorities. For thisto happen, the growth must be inclusive in the broadestsense. It must occur not just in our major cities but alsoin our villages and small towns.

8 It must be spread acrossall states and not just limited to some. It must generatesufficient volumes of high quality employment to providethe means for uplift of large numbers of our populationfrom the low income low quality occupations in whichtoo many of them have been traditionally Eleventh plan addresses itself to the challenge ofmaking growth both faster and more inclusive . The rapidgrowth achieved in the past several years demonstratesthat we have learnt how to bring about growth, but wehave yet to achieve comparable success in , whether we look at it narrowly in terms of thepopulation below consumption based poverty line ormore broadly in terms of population without access toessential services, is definitely declining but the pace ofdecline is slower than it should be.

9 Our people have a rightto expect that the evidently increased economic capabilitiesof our economy are translated into accelerating progressin these dimensions also. The Eleventh plan aims atachieving a radical transformation in this aspect of ourdevelopment. It sets a target for 9% growth in the fiveyear period 2007 08 to 2011 12 with acceleration duringthe period to reach 10% by the end of the plan . It alsoidentifies 26 other measurable indices of performancerelating to poverty, education, health, women and children,infrastructure, and environment and sets monitorabletargets in each of in a market economy which is becomingincreasingly integrated with the world is bound to bedifferent from what it used to be in earlier years.

10 Muchof what used to be done by governments, includingespecially the establishment of production unitsproducing manufactured goods and commercial services,is now being done by the private sector. India is blessedin having a long tradition of private entrepreneurshipand the private sector has responded magnificently tothe new opportunities opened up by economic , this does not mean that the role of thegovernment must shrink. On the contrary, the governmentmust play a much larger role in some areas even whileshifting out of Eleventh plan outlines the new priorities for thepublic sector.