The document summarizes India's Twelfth Five Year Plan from 2012-2017. The plan's vision is to achieve faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. Rapid GDP growth is important for raising living standards through job creation and income opportunities, and for generating tax revenue to finance social programs. Achieving high growth requires raising investment rates and domestic savings. The plan estimates total public sector resources of $806 billion at 11.8% of GDP. Key focus areas include renewable energy, energy efficiency, transportation, water management, education, skills development, and social inclusion.

1. TWELFTH FIVE YEAR PLAN(2012 –
2017)

2. Vision & Aspirations
• The broad vision and aspirations which the
Twelfth Plan seeks to fulfill are reflected in the
subtitle:
• ‘Faster, Sustainable, and More Inclusive
Growth’.
• The simultaneous achievement of each of
these elements is critical for the success of the
Plan.

3. Why GDP growth is
important for the inclusiveness
objective?
• Rapid growth of GDP produces a larger expansion in
total income and production which, if the growth
process is sufficiently inclusive, will directly raise
living standards of a large section of our people by
providing them with employment and other income
enhancing activities.
• It generates higher revenues, which help to finance
critical programmes of inclusiveness.

4. Investment
• The ability to raise the rate of investment (ratio of
gross fixed capital formation [GFCF)] to GDP) is
widely regarded as critical for the achievement of
high growth.

6. Savings
• Savings need to be financed through a
combination of domestic savings and net foreign
inflow.

9. Financing the Plan
• The estimates show resource availability for the
Twelfth Plan of `8050123 cr. at current prices for
the Centre and States taken together.
• These projections imply that public sector
resources for the Plan will be at 11.80 per cent of
GDP
• The outcome will depend critically on
achievement of buoyancy in tax revenue,
effective control over subsidies and an
improvement in the resource mobilising capacity
of Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs)

11. Twelve Focus Areas for the Twelfth
Plan
1. Advanced Coal Technologies
2. National Wind Energy Mission
3. National Solar Mission
4. Technology Improvement in Iron and Steel Industry
5. Technology Improvement in Cement Industry
6. Energy Efficiency Programmes in the Industry
7. Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Programme
8. Improving the Efficiency of Freight Transport
9. Better Urban Public and Non-motorized Transport
10. Lighting, Labelling and Super-efficient
EquipmentProgramme
11. Faster Adoption of Green Building Codes
12. Improving the Stock of Forest and Tree Cover

12. DEMAND AND SUPPLY OF WATER IN
INDIA
• The water budget based on Ministry of Water
Resources estimates shows utilisable water of 1123
billion cubic metres (BCM) against current water
demand of 710 BCM, suggesting more than adequate
availability at the aggregate level given current
requirements.
• However, more recent calculations, based on more
realistic estimates of the amount of water lost to the
atmosphere by evapo-transpiration, are less
reassuring.
• Since the amount of water available is more or less
constant, rising demands due to increasing population
and economic growth will strain the demand–supply
balance.

13. Important Programmes
• National Groundwater Management Programme
• Promoting Groundwater Development in Eastern
India
• Integrated Watershed Management Programme
(IWMP)
• Repair, Renovation And Restoration (RRR) Of
Water Bodies
• Urban Water And Waste Management

14. Land Issues
• The Twelfth Plan Working Group Disadvantaged
Farmers, including Women has proposed several
mechanisms for easing the land constraint faced
by the landless and land-poor.
Points of consideration
• LAND ACQUISITION FOR NON-AGRICULTURAL USE
• INNOVATIONS IN LAND FOR URBANISATION
• MODERNISATION OF LAND RECORDS

15. Targets : Environment, Forestry and
Wildlife
ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE
• Assess and remediate 12 identified contaminated sites (hazardous chemicals
and wastes) with potential for ground watercontamination by 2017.
• Clean 80 per cent of critically polluted stretches in rivers by 2017 and 100 per
cent by 2020.
• States to meet NAAQS in urban areas by 2017.
• To reduce emission intensity of our GDP in line with the target of 20 to 25
percent reduction over 2005 levels by 2020.
WILDLIFE, ECOTOURISM AND ANIMAL WELFARE
• Twenty per cent of veterinary professionals in the country will be trained in
treating wildlife.
• Integrated Ecotourism District Plans covering 10 per cent of all potential
Protected Areas (PAs) by 2017.
• Promoting participation of private sector, civil societies, NGOs and
philanthropists in animal welfare.

16. FORESTS AND LIVELIHOOD
• Greening 5 million ha under Green India Mission including 1.5 million ha of
degraded lands, afforestation and Eco restoration of 0.9 million ha of ecologically
sensitive areas.
• Technology-based monitoring of forest cover, biodiversity and growing stock
including change-monitoring on periodical basis through dedicated satellite by
2017 and establishment of open web-based National Forestry and Environmental
Information system for research and public accessibility by 2015.
• Engagement of Village Green Guards/Community Foresters for every Joint Forest
Management (JFM) village by 2016.
• Establish forestry seed bank in forest circles and Model Nursery in every district
with information on public portal by 2014.
ECOSYSTEM AND BIODIVERSITY
• Restore 0.1 million ha of wetlands/inland lakes/water bodies by 2017.
• Mapping and preparation of biodiversity management plans for deserts (both
cold and arid), coastal areas, important coral zones, wetlands, mangroves and so
on to be completed by 2017.

17. Science and Technology
• Enrichment of Knowledge Base
• S&T Human Resource Development and University
Interaction
• Aligning S&T to Developmental Needs
• Implementation of National Missions(various
sectors)
• Approaches for Strengthening and Expanding R&D
Base

18. Innovation
• Towards building an Innovation Ecosystem
• Supporting Financial System and Mentoring: India
Inclusive Innovation Funds (IIIFs)
• Increasing Skills, Productivity and
Competitiveness of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs) through Innovation
• Nurturing Innovation through Education
• Connecting India: Rural Broadband

19. Governance
• Strengthening Local Institutions
• Social Mobilisation
• Restructuring of Centrally Sponsored Schemes
• Improving Public Service Delivery
• Dissemination of Information
• Combating Corruption
• Collaboration and Implementation

27. Transport
• Containerisation In Railways
• Business Models for Passenger and Rail Freight
Logistics
• Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFCs) – A Game Change
for the Indian Rail Sector
• Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Railways
• Financing of National Highway Development
Programme (NHDP)
• Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) Contract
• Introduction of Electronic Toll Collection (ETC)
• GAGAN—The Indian Satellite Based augmentation
System (SBAS) for Air Navigation Services (ANS)

28. Twelfth Plan Targets for the
Telecommunication Sector
• Provision of 1200 million connections by 2017.
• Mobile access to all villages and increase rural teledensity to 70
per cent by 2017.
• Broadband connection of 175 million by 2017.
• Commissioning of National Optical Fibre Network(NOFN)
• Make available additional 300 MHz of spectrum for IMT services
• Making India a hub for telecom equipment manufacturing by
incentivising domestic manufacturers with thrust on IPR, product
development and commercialisation.
• Provide preferential market access for indigenously
manufactured products.
• To increase domestic manufactured products in telecom network
to the extent of 60 per cent with value addition of 45 per cent by
2017.
• Adoption of green policy in Telecom and incentivise use of
renewable energy sources.

29. Rural Development
• MGNREGA
• National Rural Drinking Water Programme
(NRDWP)
• Total Sanitation Campaign(TSC)
• Provision Of Urban Amenities In Rural Areas
(PURA)
• National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)

33. TWELFTH PLAN INITIATIVES FOR
EDUCATION SECTOR
• Strong Focus on Learning Outcomes
• Address Residual Access and Equity Gaps
• Focus on Teachers and Education Leadership
• Linkages with Other Sectors
• Integration of Sports and Physical Education
• Integration of Arts in Education

34. Education Schemes
1. Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA)
2. Model Schools Scheme
3. Girls Hostel Scheme
4. ICT @ Schools
5. Inclusive Education for Disabled at Secondary
Stage
6. Scheme of Vocational Education
7. National Means-cum Merit Scholarship Scheme
8. National Incentive to Girls
9. Appointment of Language Teachers

35. Employee and Skill Development
• Permanent Institutional Structure for Driving the
Skill Development Agenda
• National Skill Qualification Frame work (NSQF)
• Skilling Workers in the Unorganised/Informal
Sector
• Strengthening and Revamping the Institutional
Structure
• Expanding the Out Reach to Under-served Areas
and North Eastern States through PPP
• Training of Trainers
• Reforming the Apprenticeship System
• Making Skills Aspirational through Advocacy

36. Women’s Agency & Child Rights
• The nationwide introduction of the joint mother and
child protection card
• National Nutrition Policy And National Plan Of Action
On Nutrition (NPAN)
• Bringing Strong Nutrition Focus To Sectoral
Programmes
• Multi-sectoral Approach For Accelerating Action On
Determinants Of Undernutrition
• Promoting Optimal Maternal, Infant And Young Child
Care And Feeding Practices
• Combating Micro-nutrient Deficiencies In A Holistic
Manner

37. Social Inclusion
• INCREASE ALLOCATION
• DIRECTLY TARGET MINORITIES
• INSTITUTIONALISE ROBUST MONITORING
• DEVELOP TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP
• FOCUS ON SKILL BUILDING FOR EMPLOYABILITY
• INITIATE PILOT SCHEMES FOR MINORITIES