Core Indicators for Inclusive Growth

Core indicators that are listed below reflect the vision of rapid, sustainable and more inclusive growth during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan:

Economic Growth:

  • Real GDP Growth Rate of 8.2%.
  • Agriculture Growth Rate of 4.0%.
  • Manufacturing Growth Rate of 10.0%.
  • Every State must have a higher average growth rate in the Twelfth Plan than that achieved in the Eleventh Plan.

Poverty and Employment

  • Head-count ratio of consumption poverty to be reduced by 10 percentage points over the preceding estimates by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Generate 50 million new work opportunities in the non-farm sector and provide skill certification to equivalent numbers during the Twelfth Five Year Plan.

Education

  • Mean Years of Schooling to increase to seven years by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Enhance access to higher education by creating two million additional seats for each age cohort aligned to the skill needs of the economy.
  • Eliminate gender and social gap in school enrolment (that is, between girls and boys, and between SCs, STs, Muslims and the rest of the population) by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.

Health

  • Reduce IMR to 25 and MMR to 1 per 1000 live births, and improve Child Sex Ratio (0–6 years) to 950 by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1 by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Reduce under-nutrition among children aged 0–3 years to half of the NFHS-3 levels by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.

Infrastructure, Including Rural Infrastructure

  • Increase investment in infrastructure as a percentage of GDP to 9% by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Increase the Gross Irrigated Area from 90 million hectare to 103 million hectare by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Provide electricity to all villages and reduce AT&C losses to 20% by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Connect all villages with all-weather roads by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Upgrade national and state highways to the minimum two-lane standard by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Complete Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Increase rural tele-density to 70%t by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Ensure 50% of rural population has access to 55 LPCD piped drinking water supply and 50% of gram panchayats achieve the Nirmal Gram Status by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.

Environment & Sustainability

  • Increase green cover (as measured by satellite imagery) by 1 million hectare every year during the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Add 30000 MW of renewable energy capacity in Reduce emission intensity of GDP in line with the target of 20% to 25% reduction by 2020 over 2005 levels.

Service Delivery

  • Provide access to banking services to 90% Indian households by the end of Twelfth Five Year Plan.
  • Major subsidies and welfare related beneficiary payments to be shifted to a direct cash transfer by the end of the Twelfth Plan, using the Aadhar platform with linked bank accounts.

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