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Infrastructure
(xiii) Increase investment in infrastructure as a percentage of GDP to 9 per cent by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xiv) Increase the Gross Irrigated Area from 90 million hectare to 103 million hectare by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xv) Provide electricity to all villages and reduce AT&C losses to 20 per cent by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xvi) Connect all villages with all-weather roads by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xvii) Upgrade national and state highways to the minimum two-lane standard by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xviii) Complete Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xix) Increase rural tele-density to 70 per cent by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xx) Ensure that 50 per cent of the rural population have access to 40 lpcd piped drinking water supply, and 50 per cent gram panchayats achieve Nirmal Gram Status by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
Environment and Sustainability
(xxi) Increase green cover (as measured by satellite imagery) by 1 million hectare every year during the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xxii) Add 30,000 MW of renewable energy capacity in the Twelfth Plan.
(xxiii) Reduce emission intensity of GDP in line with the target of 20 per cent to 25 per cent reduction over 2005 levels by 2020.
(xiv) Provide access to banking services to 90 per cent Indian households by the end of the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
(xxv) 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.
States are encouraged to set state-specific targets corresponding to the above, taking account of what is the reasonable degree of progress given the initial position. Sector-wise monitorable growth targets set by the states have also been given by the Plan.