11th FYP visualizes "Faster and more inclusive growth" as its objective. Does the 11th plan really address the concern?
Targets fixed by 11th plan
(1) to push overall GDP to average rate of 9%
(2) boosting agriculture growth to 4% from a disappointing 2%, industry to 10-11% and services to 9-11%
(3)Generation of 58 million employment opportunities;
(4) Reduction unemployment among the educated to less than 5%.
(5) 20% increase in the real wage of unskilled workers.
(6) Reduction in headcount ratio of poverty by 10 percentage points.
(ii) Education
(1) Reduction in drop-out rate among children at the elementary level from 52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12.
(2) Developing minimum standards of attainment in elementary schools, to ensure quality of education.
(3) Increasing literacy rate for persons 0-7 years or more to 85% by 2011-12.
(4) Reducing gender gap in literacy to 10 percent points by 2011-12.
(5) Increasing the percentage of persons going for higher education from 10% to 15% by 2011-12.
(iii) Health
(1) Infant mortality rate (IMR) to be reduced to 28 and maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 1 per 1,000 by 2011-12.
(2) Total fertility rate to be reduced to 2.1 by 2011-12.
(3) Clean drinking water to be made available to all by 2009.
(4) Malnutrition among children of age 0-3 to be reduced to half its present level.
(5) Anaemia among women and girls to be reduced to half its present level.
(iv) Women and Children
(1) Sex ratio for age group 0-6 to be raised to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-17.
(2) Ensuring that at least 33% of beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children.
(3) Ensuring that all children enjoy a safe childhood, without any compulsion to work.
(v) Infrastructure
(1) To ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL (Below Poverty Line) Households by 2009 and reliable power by the end of the 11th Plan.
(2) To ensure all, weather road connection to all habitations with population 1000 and above (500 and above for hilly areas) by 2009.
(3) To connect every village by telephone and provide broad band connectivity to all village by 2012.
(4) To provide homestead sites to all by 2012 and step up the pace of housing construction for the poor to
cover all the poor by 2016-17.
(vi) Environment
(1) To increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.
(2) To attains WTO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12.
(3) To treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river waters.
To increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points improvement of governance.
For these targets government indicated the concept of 'inclusive growth' as a part of 11th plan framework and intends to chart out a course which is basically anti-labour and pro-corporate sector. This is precisely in conflict with the goal of providing secure income and employment for "aam admin". The best way to achieve this is to promote small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small peasant agriculture. But there is no clear policy of promoting SME. The recommendations of the National Commission on Farmers (NCF) headed by Dr. M S Swaminathan regarding setting up a fund for farmers affected by crop lease, reducing interest on import of agricultural products, have not been included in the Eleventh Plan. The removal of poverty requires targeted attention. The Planning Commission has given a long catalogue of schemes such as NREGS, SJRY, slum improvement program, housing for poor and skill development program etc. The effectivity of implementation will indicate the extent to which the targeted beneficiaries are helped. The Planning Commission is silent on issues like food security, strengthening price support systems, creation of price stabalization fund for agricultural comodities, universalization of crop insurance, protection to peasantry from subsidized imports of agricultural commodities and land reform.
Targets fixed by 11th plan
(1) to push overall GDP to average rate of 9%
(2) boosting agriculture growth to 4% from a disappointing 2%, industry to 10-11% and services to 9-11%
(3)Generation of 58 million employment opportunities;
(4) Reduction unemployment among the educated to less than 5%.
(5) 20% increase in the real wage of unskilled workers.
(6) Reduction in headcount ratio of poverty by 10 percentage points.
(ii) Education
(1) Reduction in drop-out rate among children at the elementary level from 52.2% in 2003-04 to 20% by 2011-12.
(2) Developing minimum standards of attainment in elementary schools, to ensure quality of education.
(3) Increasing literacy rate for persons 0-7 years or more to 85% by 2011-12.
(4) Reducing gender gap in literacy to 10 percent points by 2011-12.
(5) Increasing the percentage of persons going for higher education from 10% to 15% by 2011-12.
(iii) Health
(1) Infant mortality rate (IMR) to be reduced to 28 and maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 1 per 1,000 by 2011-12.
(2) Total fertility rate to be reduced to 2.1 by 2011-12.
(3) Clean drinking water to be made available to all by 2009.
(4) Malnutrition among children of age 0-3 to be reduced to half its present level.
(5) Anaemia among women and girls to be reduced to half its present level.
(iv) Women and Children
(1) Sex ratio for age group 0-6 to be raised to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by 2016-17.
(2) Ensuring that at least 33% of beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children.
(3) Ensuring that all children enjoy a safe childhood, without any compulsion to work.
(v) Infrastructure
(1) To ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL (Below Poverty Line) Households by 2009 and reliable power by the end of the 11th Plan.
(2) To ensure all, weather road connection to all habitations with population 1000 and above (500 and above for hilly areas) by 2009.
(3) To connect every village by telephone and provide broad band connectivity to all village by 2012.
(4) To provide homestead sites to all by 2012 and step up the pace of housing construction for the poor to
cover all the poor by 2016-17.
(vi) Environment
(1) To increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.
(2) To attains WTO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12.
(3) To treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river waters.
To increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points improvement of governance.
For these targets government indicated the concept of 'inclusive growth' as a part of 11th plan framework and intends to chart out a course which is basically anti-labour and pro-corporate sector. This is precisely in conflict with the goal of providing secure income and employment for "aam admin". The best way to achieve this is to promote small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and small peasant agriculture. But there is no clear policy of promoting SME. The recommendations of the National Commission on Farmers (NCF) headed by Dr. M S Swaminathan regarding setting up a fund for farmers affected by crop lease, reducing interest on import of agricultural products, have not been included in the Eleventh Plan. The removal of poverty requires targeted attention. The Planning Commission has given a long catalogue of schemes such as NREGS, SJRY, slum improvement program, housing for poor and skill development program etc. The effectivity of implementation will indicate the extent to which the targeted beneficiaries are helped. The Planning Commission is silent on issues like food security, strengthening price support systems, creation of price stabalization fund for agricultural comodities, universalization of crop insurance, protection to peasantry from subsidized imports of agricultural commodities and land reform.
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