Tenth
Five Year Plan (2002 - 2007)
The
Tenth Five Year Plan aimed at explicitly addressing the issues of equity and
social justice. It fixed a target of 8 percent GDP growth rate for 2002 - 2007.
The key targets fixed for the Plan are as
follows :
1.Reduction of poverty by 5 percentage points
by 2007 and 15 percentage points by 2012.
2.Gainful employment to the addition to the
labour force during the Plan period;
3.Universal access to Primary education by
2007 ;
4.Reduction in the decadal rate of population
growth between 2001 to 2011 to 16.2 percent ;
5.Increase in literacy to 75 percent by 2007
6.Reduction in infant mortality rate (IMR) to
45 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 28 by 2007;
7.Reduction of maternal mortality ratio (MMR)
to 2 per 1000 live births by 2007 and to 1 by 2012.
8.Increase in forest and tree cover to 25
percent by 2007 and to 33 percent by 2012 ;
9.All villages to have access to potable water
by 2012 ; and
10. Cleaning of all major polluted rivers by
2007.
The
past experience raises doubts about fulfilment of many targets such as the GDP
growth rate of 8 percent, and fulfilment of employment target. Agriculture and
small scale industries are still at a low priority level. And there is too much
of faith in the private sector.
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