The Eleventh Five-Year Plan aimed to achieve an average GDP growth rate of 9% per year from 2007-2012. Key targets included reducing poverty, improving education and literacy rates, reducing infant and maternal mortality, and expanding infrastructure like electricity, roads, and telecommunications. Thirteen national targets like GDP growth, poverty reduction, and health outcomes were broken down into state-specific targets. The Plan sought to balance continued economic growth with social development goals like education, health, and empowering women and children.

1. Eleventh Five-year Plan(2007-12)Presented by:Bhobotosh DebnathMBA first semester, Nagaland University

2. IntroductionPrime Minster Jawaharlal Nehru set up the planning commission in 1950. The first Five-Year Plan commenced in 1950-51. The guiding principles of India’s Five-Year Plans are provided by the basic objectives of growth, employment, self reliance and social justice. Five- year Planning in India so far:

4. THE ELEVENTH FIVE YEAR PLAN:-INTRODUCTIONThe Eleventh Five Year Plan was approved by the National Development Council on 19 December 2007. The Eleventh Plan set a target for 9% growth in the five year period 2007–08Chairman of the 11th 5-Year plan is Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh

5. THE 27 NATIONAL TARGETS (Key Targets)Twenty-seven targets at the national level fall in six major categories. The six categories are: (i) Income and Poverty; (ii) Education; (iii) Health; (iv) Women and Children; (v) Infrastructure; and (vi) Environment. The targets in each of these categories are given below.

6. THE KEY NATIONAL TARGETSIncome and Poverty • Average GDP growth rate of 9% per year in the Eleventh Plan period. • Agricultural GDP growth rate at 4% per year on the average. • Generation of 58 million new work opportunities. • Reduction of unemployment among the educated to less than 5% • 20% rise in the real wage rate of unskilled workers. • Reduction in the head-count ratio of consumption poverty by 10 percentage points.

7. THE KEY NATIONAL TARGETS(ii) Education • Reduction in the dropout rates of children at the elementary level from 52.2% in 2003–04 to 20% by 2011–12. • Developing minimum standards of educational attainment in elementary schools, to ensure quality education. • Increasing the literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or more to 85% by 2011–12. • Reducing the gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage points by 2011–12. • Increasing the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15% by 2011–12.

8. THE KEY NATIONAL TARGETS(iii) Health • Infant mortality rate (IMR) to be reduced to 28 and maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to 1 per 1000 live births by the end of the Eleventh Plan. • Total Fertility Rate to be reduced to 2.1 by the end of the Eleventh Plan. • Clean drinking water to be available for all by 2009, ensuring that there are no slip-backs by the end of the Eleventh Plan. • Malnutrition among children of age group 0–3 to be reduced to half its present level by the end of the Eleventh Plan. • Anaemia among women and girls to be reduced to half its present level by the end of the Eleventh Plan.

9. THE KEY NATIONAL TARGETS(iv) Women and Children • Sex ratio for age group 0–6 to be raised to 935 by 2011– 12 and to 950 by 2016–17. • Ensuring that at least 33% of the direct and indirect beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children. • Ensuring that all children enjoy a safe childhood, without any compulsion to work.

10. THE KEY NATIONAL TARGETS(v) Infrastructure • To ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL households by 2009 and reliable power by the end of the Plan. • To ensure all-weather road connection to all habitations with population 1000 and above (500 and above in hilly and tribal areas) by 2009, and all significant habitations by 2015. • To connect every village by telephone and provide broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012. • To 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.

11. THE KEY NATIONAL TARGETS(vi) Environment • To increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points. • To attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011–12. • To treat all urban waste water by 2011–12 to clean river waters. • To increase energy efficiency by 20% by 2016–17.

12. THE 13 STATE-SPECIFIC TARGETSThe Eleventh Plan has been formulated in a manner whereby 13 of the 27 monitor able national targets have been disaggregated into appropriate targets for individual States. These are (i) GDP growth rate (ii) Agricultural growth rate (iii) New work opportunities (iv) Poverty ratio (v) Drop out rate in elementary schools (vi) Literacy rate (vii) Gender gap in literacy rate

13. THE 13 STATE-SPECIFIC TARGETS(viii) Infant mortality rate (IMR) (ix) Maternal mortality ratio (MMR) (x) Total Fertility Rate (TFR) (xi) Child malnutrition (xii) Anemia among women and girls (xiii) Sex-ratio Appropriate policies and programeshave to be identified both at the Central and State levels so as to ensure realization of these targets in the Eleventh Plan period.

14. Achievement And Growth Rate:1.Growth of national and per capita income: National incomeAverage Gr. 3.4% and PCI 1.2%.2.Rise in life expectancy: 1951-32 years, 2001-64 years.3.Development of a huge educational system:4.Development of science and technology: 5.Development of agriculture leading to self sufficiency in food grains and raw materials: Land reform/NAS/Green Revolution. 4% growth in this sector.6.Impressive industrialisation in the capital goods sector with the help of the public sector: industries during British period were related to consumers’ goods such as matches, sugar, cotton, etc.

15. FAILURS:The continuing poverty:

16. Theexistence of unemployment and under employment