Question
Explain the targets of the 12th Five Year plan.

Answer

Targets for infrastructure are:
  • To connect all villages of a country with all-weather roads.
  • To increase rural television and telephone density to 70%.
  • To increase infrastructure investment to 9% of G.D.P.
  • To upgrade national and state highways to a minimum two-lane standard.
  • To achieve real GDP growth rate at 8%, agriculture growth rate at 4%, and manufacturing and industrial growth rate at 10 %.
  • To reduce the headcount ratio of poverty by 10%.
  • To create 50 million (5 crores) new work opportunities in the non-farm sector.
  • To increase average years of schooling to 7 years.
  • To eliminate gender and social gap in school enrollment.
  • To reduce the total fertility rate to 2.1%.

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