 The economy of India is based in part on planning

through its five-year plans, developed, executed and

monitored by the Planning Commission. The Five Year
Plans of India envisage executing a large-scale nation-
building program in a coordinated fashion. The federal
agency Planning Commission was setup by the Union
government of India in 1951 to assess all resources of the
country, augmenting deficient resources, formulating
plans for the effective and balanced utilization of
resources and determining priorities . With the Prime
Minister as the ex officio Chairman, the commission has a
nominated Deputy Chairman, who has rank of a Cabinet
minister. Montek Singh Ahluwalia is currently the Deputy
Chairman of the Commission. The tenth plan completed
its term in March 2007 and the eleventh plan is currently
underway.
Previous Five Year Plans at a
Glance
Period Plan Remarks
1951-52 to 1955-56 First Plan Priority given to agriculture and
irrigation
1956-57 to 1960-61 Second Development of basic and heavy
Plan industries
1961-62 to 1965-66 Third Plan Long term development of India’s
economy
1966-67 to 1968-69 Annual Plan holiday period- Chinese and
Plans Pakistani wars
Period Plan Remarks
1969-70 to 1973-74 Fourth Plan It brought in a ‘scientific temper’ to
Indian agriculture and self reliance

1974-75 to 1977-78 Fifth Plan Terminated a year earlier by the Janta

Govt. which introduced the ‘Rolling Plan
’ concept.
1978-79 to 1979-80 Annual Plan Launched by the Janta Govt.
1980-81 to 1984-85 Sixth Plan Originally launched by the Janta Govt.
However, abandoned by the new Govt
and revised plan for 1981-85
subsequently approved
1985-86 to 1989-90 Seventh Plan Food, work and productivity were the
basic priorities.
1990-91 to 1991-92 Annual Basic thrust was on maximization of
Plans employment and social transformation
1992-93 to 1996-97 Eighth Plan Faster economic growth, faster growth of
manufacturing, agricultural and allied sectors,
significant growth rates in exports and
 Priority to agriculture and rural
development; accelerating growth
rate of economy; food and
nutritional security for all;
1997-98 to 2001-02 Ninth plan containing growth rate of
population; empowerment of
women and socially disadvantaged
groups such as SC/STs, backward
classes and minorities etc.
Drastic pruning of unproductive
and unnecessary expenditure;
Downsizing government; Reduction
in non-merit subsidies; Re-orienting
2002-2007 Tenth Plan strategy to raise food production;
Reforming and rejuvenating the
power sector; Labour reforms;
Speeding up reforms in the
financial sector.
 Introduction and Objectives
 The economy of India is based in part on planning
through there five-year plans, developed, executed
and monitored by the Planning Commission.
 Growth rate of approximately 10% by the end of
plan period; growth of 4% in agriculture sector,
faster employment creation, reducing disparities
across regions and ensuring access to basic
physical infrastructure and health and education
services to all.
11th Five Year Plan is India’s
education plan: Prime Minister

 Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that

education was a priority for the government and
the 11th Five Year Plan is the education plan of
the country.“Investment in the education sector,
especially in the areas of school education, has
increased manifold in the last four years. The
11th Five Year Plan can be described as an
education plan for our country,”
Objectives:-

“Faster and More Inclusive Growth” ; growth rate of

approximately 10% by the end of plan period;
growth of 4% in agriculture sector, faster
employment creation, reducing disparities across
regions and ensuring access to basic physical
infrastructure and health and education services to
all. Major objectives of the eleventh five years plan
in detail are

Income & Poverty

 Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10% and then
maintain at 10% in the 12th Plan in order to double per
capita income by 2016-17
Continued…….

 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
percent.
 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
above to 85%
 Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage point
 Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher
education from the present 10% to 15% by the end of
the plan
 Health

 Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal

mortality ratio 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
 Reduce malnutrition among children of age
group 0-3 to half its present level
 Reduce anaemia among women and girls by
50% by the end of the 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 percent 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.

 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
  
 Infrastructure

 Ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL

households by 2009 and round-the-clock power.
 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
 Allocation for major sectors
 Education sector:-
Allocation of funds for education
sector increased by 34.2% to Rs. 32,352 crores.

 Means – cum- merit scholarships:-

National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Scheme to be introduced
to arrest drop out ratio; selection through a national test from
among students who have passed class VIII; each student to be
given Rs 6,000 per year; 100,000 scholarships to be awarded every
year; a corpus fund of Rs 750 crore to be created this year, and
augmented by a like amount annually over the next three years.
 320,000 Associated Social Health Activists (ASHAs)
recruited with over 200,000 given orientation training;
90,000 link workers selected by the States; AYUSH
systems being mainstreamed into health delivery system
at all levels; increase in allocation for NRHM from Rs
8,207 crore to Rs 9,947 crore.

 HIV/AIDS:-
Access to condoms to be expanded and universal
access to blood screening and safe blood to be ensured;
more hospitals to provide treatment to prevent
transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child;
provision for AIDS control program to be Rs.969 crore.
 Drinking Water and Sanitation:-
Allocation for Rajiv Gandhi Drinking
Water Mission to be increased from Rs 4,680 crore to Rs 5,850
crore and for Total Sanitation Campaign from Rs 720 crore to Rs
954 crore.

 Health Sector, National Rural Health Mission:-All

districts to complete preparation of District Action Health Plans
by March 2007; major emphasis to be on mother and child care
and on prevention and treatment of communicable diseases;
convergence sought to be achieved among various programmes
such as immunization, antenatal care, nutrition and sanitation
through Monthly Health Days (MHD) organised at Anganwadi
centres;
 Polio:-
Number of polio rounds to be increased, monovalent
vaccine to be introduced, with intensive coverage in
the 20 high risk districts of Uttar Pradesh and 10
districts of Bihar; provision for AIDS control
program to be Rs 969 crore. 

 Integrated Child Development Services:- To

cover all habitations and settlements and to reach out
to pregnant women, lactating mothers and all
children below the age of six; allocation to be
increased from Rs.4,087 crore to Rs.4,761 crore.
 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled
Tribes:-
 Allocation of Rs 3,538 crore in respect of schemes
benefiting only SCs and STs and Rs 17,691 crore in
respect of schemes with at least 20% of benefits
earmarked for SCs and STs.
 increase in allocation for Rajiv Gandhi National
Fellowship Program from Rs 35 crore to Rs 88 crore ,
Post- Metric Scholarships: provision to be increased
from Rs 440 crore to Rs 611 crore; a separate
provision of Rs 91 crore proposed for similar
scholarships to students belonging to socially and
educationally backward classes.
 Urban Unemployment:-
Increase in allocation for Swarna Jayanti Shahari
Rojgar Yojana from Rs. 250 crore to Rs.344
crore.

 Women:- Outlay for 100% women specific

program is Rs.8,795 crore and for scheme where
at least 30% allocation is for women specific
program is Rs.22,382 crore.
 Minorities:
Increase in share capital of National Minorities
Development and Finance Corporation to Rs 63
crore ; provision of Rs 108 crore for a multi-
sector development program in districts with a
concentration of minorities.
allocation for Pre- metric scholarships at Rs 72
crore, Post-metric scholarships at Rs 90 crore
and Merit-cum-Means scholarships at graduate
and postgraduate levels at Rs 48.60 crore.
 National Rural Employment Guarantee
Scheme: Allocation of Rs 12,000 crore for NREGS;
coverage to expand from 200 districts to 330 districts;
Rs 2,800 crore provided for Sampoorna Gramin
Rozgar Yojana in districts not covered by NREGS;
allocation for Swaranjayanti Gram Sarozgar Yojana
to promote self employment among rural poor to
increase from Rs 1,200 to Rs 1,800 crore.

 Integrated Child Development Services:

To cover all habitations and settlements during
Eleventh Plan and to reach out to pregnant
women, lactating mothers and all children below
the age of six; allocation to be increased from Rs
4,087 crore to Rs 4,761 crore.