National Targets of the Eleventh Plan

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.
(i) Income 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.
(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.
(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. (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.
(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.
(iv) 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.