ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN

(2007-2012)
Introduction
The Indian economy on the eve of eleventh plan has strong fundamentals
where we now have the capacity to make a decisive impact on the quality
of life of the mass of our people, especially the poor. The eleventh plan
has the opportunity to restructure policies to achieve a new vision of
growth that is much broader based and inclusive, bringing about a faster
reduction in poverty and helping in bridging the divides. The national
development council in its meeting held on 9-December-2006 has
approved the approach paper to the eleventh plan “Towards faster and
more inclusive growth”
Objectives of Eleventh Plan:-
1. Income and poverty
2. Education
3. Women and children
4. Infrastructure
5. Environment
1. Income and poverty
i. 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.
ii. Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year to ensure a
broader spread of benefits.
iii. Create 70 million new work opportunities.
iv. Reduce educated unemployment to below 5%.
v. Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 percent.
vi. Reduce the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10 percentage
points.
2. Education
i. Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2%
in 2003-2004 to 20% by 2011-20012.
ii. Develop minimum standards of educational attainment in elementary
school, and by regular testing monitor effectiveness of education to
ensure quality.
iii. Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or more to 85%.
iv. Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage points.
v. Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from
the present 10% to 15% by the end of plan.
3. Health
i. Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio to 1
per 1000 live births.
ii. Reduce total fertility rate to 2.1.
iii. Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009 and ensure that there are
no slip-backs.
iv. Reduce malnutrition among children of age group 0-3 to half its
present level.
v. Reduce anemia among women and girls by 50% by the end of the
plan.
4. Women and children
i. Raise the sex ratio for age group 0-6 to 935 by 2011-12 and to 950 by
2016-17.
ii. Ensure that at least 33 percent of the direct and indirect beneficiaries
of all government schemes are women and girl children.
iii. Ensure that all children enjoy a safe childhood, without any
compulsion to work.
5. Infrastructure
i. Ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL households by
2009 and round the clock power.
ii. Ensure all weather road connection to all habitation with population
1000 and above by 2009, and ensure coverage of all significant
habitation by 2015.
iii. Connect every village by telephone by November 2007 and provide
broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012.
iv. 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.
6. Environment
i. Increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points.
ii. Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011-12.
iii. Treat all urban waste water by 2011-12 to clean river water.
iv. Increase energy efficiency by 20 percentage points by 2016-17.
Strategies for Eleventh plan:-
1. Urban planning
2. Social and economic inclusions
3. Supply of land
4. Finance
5. Technology
6. Housing initiatives
7. Role of stakeholders
1. Urban planning
i. Symbiotic development of rural and urban areas in line with the
objectives of 74th constitution amendment act.
ii. Regional planning approach taking the whole state/UT as a region,
under the town and country planning acts in the states.
iii. Encouraging state governments, urban local bodies, development
authorities to periodically update their master plans and zoning plans.
iv. Developing Greenfield towns and integrated urban housing extensions
of existing towns.
v. Devising adequate safeguards for promoting a healthy environment
with special emphasis on ‘Green lungs’ of the city and green belts
around cities.
2. Social and Economic inclusion
i. Focus on urban poor.
ii. Women headed households.
iii. Weaker sections and minorities.
iv. Mainstreaming the poor and disadvantaged.
3. Supply of Land
i. Innovative spatial incentives like relaxation of floor area ratio(FAR) for
ensuring that 20-25% of the FAR are reserved for EWS/LIG.
ii. Facilitating accessibility to serviced land and housing with focus on
economically weaker sections and low income group categories.
iii. Encouraging new integrated townships and special economic zones.
iv. Private sector to be permitted land assembly within the purview of
master plans.
4. Finance
i. Developing a secondary mortgage market for enhancing flexibility in
the housing market.
ii. Nurturing reverse mortgage based securitization (RMBS) through
NHB, scheduled banks and HFCs.
iii. Floating of housing bonds for releasing additional houses in the
residential market with focus on EWS and LIG.
iv. Promoting larger flow of funds from private sources by designing
innovative financial instruments.
v. Adopting a proactive housing finance policy including micro finance
and related self help group programmes.
5. Technology
i. Transfer of proven, cost effective building materials and technologies
from lab to land.
ii. Encouraging low cost, local building materials based on agro industrial
wastes.
iii. Encouraging low energy consuming construction techniques.
iv. Promoting rain water harvesting, dual piping and capturing monsoon
run off for augmenting water supply.
v. Promotion of pre-fabricated factory made building components for
mass housing with high quality construction standards.
vi. Preparation of detailed city maps by GIS mapping through satellite
data, aerial survey and ground verification.
6. Housing Initiatives
i. In situ slum re-development.
ii. In situ slum up-gradation : provision of shelter to the urban poor at their
present location with non-transferable rights for a period of 10-15 years.
iii. Inner city renewal projects: creating better environment with cross
subsidization and spatial incentives.
iv. Relocation projects: In cases where relocation is required on account of
water pollution, safety problems or other critical reasons. Fast and
reliable transportation to work sites will be provided.
v. Greenfield towns to be developed as well as urban housing extensions of
existing towns with complementary infrastructure and MRTS corridors.
vi. SEZs: SEZs to be developed with both FDI and national investment in
housing and infrastructure.
7. Role of stakeholders
i. centre: To advice and guide states/UTs to adopt and implement the
NUHHP 2007 in a time bound manner.
ii. States: To prepare state urban housing and habitat policy and state
action plans.
iii. ULBs: To ensure that development plans/master plans as well as zonal
plans and local area plans are made and upgraded regularly.
iv. Banks/HFIs: To reassess their strategies to be more inclusive in terms of
low-income beneficiaries as well as extend their coverage to low
income neighborhoods.
v. R&D: To intensify efforts for transfer of innovative technologies and
materials from lab to field.
Evaluation of eleventh plan :-
1. Growth in national income and per capita income
2. Sectoral growth
3. Growth in saving and investment rate
4. Growth in exports and imports
5. Growth in foreign exchange reserves
6. Increase in prices
7. Employment generation
8. Infrastructure development
9. Growth in social services