12th Five Year Plan also focuses on inclusive growth: Ahluwalia

21 Feb 2013 Evaluate

As per Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) emphasis not merely on economic development but on inclusive growth to bring more poor and marginal people under its ambit. While addressing an event, Ahluwalia said in the 12th plan, we have actually set out a different objective for inclusive growth also.

Regarding the inclusive growth, he said that regionally balanced inclusive growth rate makes every state able to do better than the past, which narrows the gap between different communities and also brings gender equality, upliftment of women, improving their educational condition and social status.

By adding further, he said a number of policies and implementation by the state governments is required to achieve a high inclusive growth in 12th five year plan. Ahluwalia said ‘in the 12th plan the most interesting things we find is that the states which were earlier viewed as being backward have now begun to improve their growth quite substantially.’

Expressing view on the economic growth, Ahluwalia said that presently the economy is growing at the low rate of 5 percent or little bit more than that and we are concerned for it because lower growth means less jobs. He added that for the next five years, we can expect an average of about 8 percent economic growth.

Further, to achieve high economic growth in future, the government need to make sure that the young generation are educated and equipped with both the educational and skill weapons in order to deal with rapidly changing and increasingly globalizing world, which is a huge challenge for the country.  

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