Modi govt has got a blueprint from NITI Aayog to take the country's economy to $4 trillion in the next 5 years
These are a few of the steps the government plans to take in five years till August 15, 2022, when the independent India will turn 75.
Economic growth
Doubling Farmers Income
Economic growth
- Steadily accelerate GDP growth rate to achieve a target of 8%.
- Raise investment rates to 36% of GDP.
- Increase tax-GDP ratio to 22% of GDP.
- Work with states to improve ease of business and rationalize land & labour regulations
Employment & Labour Reforms
- Fully codify central labour laws; Enhance Female Labour Force Participation to 30%.
- Enhance skills & significantly increase number of apprenticeships.
- Improve data collection on employment.
- Ease industrial relations to encourage formalization.
Technology & Innovation
- Achieve a position among top 50 countries in Global Innovation Index.
- Establish an empowered body to holistically steer the management of science.
- Take steps for enhancing technology commercialization by public funded institutions.
- Create a non-lapsable "District Innovation Fund”.
- Double the current growth rate of the manufacturing sector.
- Develop self-sufficient clusters of manufacturing competence, with plug & play parks for MSMEs.
- Launch a major initiative to push industry to adopt Industry 4.0.
- Introduce a “single window” in states providing a single point of contact between investor & government.
Doubling Farmers Income
- Modernize technology, increase productivity & agro-processing; diversify crops
- Increase area under drip irrigation, adoption of hybrid seeds.
- Reorient ATMA to include bottom-up planning for developing Strategic Research Extension Plans.
- Encourage diversification to High Value Crops.
- Promote policies that enable farmers to capture a higher share of value addition
- Abolish APMC; Adopt Model APLM Act, Model Contract Farming Act & Model Land Leasing Act.
- Formulate a coherent & stable agricultural export policy. Eliminate ban on agro-exports.
- Focus on precision agriculture; raise research spending.
- Create modern rural infrastructure & an integrated value chain system
- Accord infrastructure status for agriculture value chains.
- Link production to processing, set up village-level procurement centres.
- Develop export-oriented clusters.
Financial Inclusion
- Ensure universal access to bank accounts, insurance & pension
- Integrate an Arthik Shiksha Abhiyan in the regular school curriculum.
- Use technology to improve assessment of credit-worthiness of small borrowers & households etc.
- Facilitate growth of online digital & paperless banking.
Housing for All
- Provide every family with a pucca house, water connection, toilet & 24x7 electricity supply
- Shift focus of projects to life cycle cost approach instead of cost per square foot approach.
- Use land lying idle with sick/loss making PSUs of central/state governments.
- Consider a sub-category under priority sector lending for affordable houses.
Travel/Tourism
- Increase India’s share in global international tourist arrivals from 1.2% to 3%
- Develop 100 “Smart Tourist Destination Sites”.
- Launch e-visa awareness campaign; enhance number of annual visits allowed under e-medical visa.
- Notify tourism infrastructure projects more than Rs 1 crore as "infrastructure".
Mining
- Target average growth of 8.5%; double area explored from current 10% of OGP
- Launch a mission “Explore in India” by revamping minerals exploration & licensing policy.
- Provide single window & time-bound environment & forest clearances.
- Create a National Mineral Regulatory Authority with subordinate state authorities.
Energy
- Make available 24x7 power to all; achieve 175 GW renewable energy generation capacity.
- Bring oil, natural gas, electricity & coal under GST to enable input tax credit.
- Promote smart grid & smart meters.
- Provide mechanism for cost-effective power grid balancing.
Surface Transport
- Double length of national highways; reduce number of road accidents & fatalities by 50%.
- Complete key projects e.g. Bharatmala Pariyojna Phase-1.
- Maintain NH assets by adopting a maintenance management system.
- Earmark 10% of annual budget for road & highways maintenance.
Railways
- Ensure an efficient, safe, cost-effective & accessible rail network; achieve zero fatalities.
- Rationalize fare structures & subsidies, & monetize assets to generate revenues.
- Implement the 22 recommendations of the High-Level Safety Review Committee chaired by Dr. Kakodkar.
- Set up an independent regulator for the Indian Railways.
Civil Aviation
- Increase domestic ticket sales from 103 to 300 million; double air cargo handled.
- Ensure time-bound completion of airports under UDAN. Privatize Tier 1 city airports.
- Reduce taxes on MRO services & consider granting infrastructure status for MRO.
- Promote “Fly-from-India” through the creation of transshipment hubs.
Ports, Shipping & Inland Waterways
- Double the share of freight transported by coastal shipping & inland waterways.
- Complete SagarMala project. Open up India?s dredging market.
- Enact new Merchant Shipping Bill.
- Facilitate access to capital for inland vessels under priority sector lending.
Logistics
- Reduce the logistics cost to less than 10% of GDP from the current level of 14%.
- Develop an IT-enabled platform for integrating different modes of transport.
- Rationalize tariffs & determine prices in an efficient manner across different modes.
- Create an overarching body that maintains a repository of all transport data.
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Digital Connectivity
- Achieve digital connectivity across states, districts; deliver government services digitally.
- Explore efficient spectrum allocation in large contiguous blocks.
- Consider putting in place a credible system to track call drops, weak signals etc.
- Focus on digital literacy at primary school level through the National Digital Literacy Mission.
Smart Cities
- Drive job creation & economic growth; improve efficiencies in service delivery.
- Establish a dedicated Metropolitan Urban Transport Authority in 1 million plus population cities.
- Launch single-window facility for urban poor to access basic services.
- Mainstream the resilient cities approach & integrate it with service levels.
Swachh Bharat Mission
- Make India open defecation free; change attitudes towards sanitation & promoting hygiene.
- Plan behavior change through communication & inter-personal communication campaigns.
- Consider expenditure on bio-toilets/bio-digesters for concession from GST.
- Nudge ULBs to charge adequate user charges for disposal of waste & toilet maintenance.
School Education
- Universal access & retention; improvement in learning outcomes.
- Formulate mechanisms to enforce regulations on teacher qualifications, absenteeism etc.
- Rationalize public school structure, undertake individualized tracking.
- Give children the option of branching into vocational courses
Higher Education
- Increase gross enrolment ratio from 25% in 2016-17 to 35%.
- Ensure effective coordination of higher education regulators.
- Compulsorily accredit all higher education institutions.
- Link funding to outcomes through MHRD & Higher Education Funding Agency.
Teacher Education & Training
- Enforce minimum standards; improve in-service training; resolve teacher absenteeism.
- Establish a committee to develop objective criteria to recognize institutions.
- Redesign in-service teacher professional development programmes.
- Set up a national electronic teacher registry; develop teacher-demand forecast models for all levels.
Skilling
- Increase proportion of formally skilled labour from 5.4% of workforce to 15%; ensure inclusivity.
- Establish single regulatory body to lay down minimum standards for players.
- Initiate vocational education from class VIII.
- Streamline claim process for reimbursement under National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme.
Public Health Action
- To revamp radically the public & preventive health system.
- Co-locate AYUSH services in 50% of PHCs, 70% of CHCs & 100% of district hospitals.
- Institute a public health & management cadre in states.
- Create a focal point for public health at the central level with state counterparts.
Primary Health Care
- Scale-up a new vision for comprehensive primary health, on the platform of Health & Wellness Centres.
- Accelerate the establishment of a network of 150,000 HWCs; Enable mechanisms for rapid scale up.
- Coordinate action to address social determinants of health.
- Catalyse people?s participation for a healthy India: Swasth Bharat Jan Andolan.
Human Resources for Health
- Achieve doctor-population ratio of 1:1400 & nurse-population ratio of 1:500
- Reform governance of medical, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy councils.
- Promote integrative medicine curriculum.
- Develop comprehensive HRH policy in states; generate data on HRH.
Universal Health Coverage
- On platform of PM-JAY, cover 75% of population with publicly financed health insurance.
- Strengthen public sector health facilities e.g. institutionalise district hospital rankings.
- Trigger private investments in supply deficit areas through incentives for hospital empanelment.
- Establish research consortia for high priority diseases.
Gender
- Enhance FLFP rate to at least 30%; create a work environment without barriers.
- Strengthen legal frameworks to eliminate discrimination against women.
- Generate gender-disaggregated data & rank states on key indicators.
- Provide gender friendly facilities in upcoming towns & big cities.
Social Inclusion
- Enable senior citizens, PwDs & transgender persons to participate in economic development.
- Revise National Policy for Older Persons; emphasize concept of „ageing in own home?.
- Generate disaggregated data on PwDs.
- Provide for identification of transgender persons in government & non-government records.
- Accelerate development of SCs, STs, OBCs, DNTs, NTs, SNTs & minorities through focused affirmative action.
- Design schemes narrowly focused on the needs of specific communities.
- Establish residential schools in uncovered blocks with facilities for vocational training.
- Vest primary responsibility for schemes implemented by Ministry of Minority Affairs with line ministries.
Aspirational Districts
- Uplift 115 districts currently lagging behind in development parameters.
- Create a positive narrative of development by making it a mass movement.
- Use data to inform decision-making & spur competition among districts.
- Establish institutional mechanisms for teamwork between centre, states & districts.
North-East Region
- Develop physical connectivity for enhanced trade; focus on waterways, financial inclusion.
- Encourage each NER state to draw up a development blueprint.
- Address connectivity issues e.g. transit treaties for NER & its neighbours.
- Promote eco-tourism & adventure tourism; ensure early completion of irrigation projects.
Legal, Judicial, Police Reforms
- Ensure safety & security of citizens & access to effective legal systems.
- Create a repository of all existing central & state laws, rules & regulations.
- Address backlog of pending cases e.g. shift part of workload out of regular court system.
- Create task force under MHA to skill personnel & identify non-core functions for outsourcing.
City Governance
- Transform cities into economically vibrant & environmentally sustainable habitats.
- Recognise each city as a distinct unit of the economy; develop a quarterly city dashboard.
- Articulate a framework for city governance that includes development authorities, other parastatals etc.
- Establish a modern national framework for spatial planning of cities.
-
Water Resources
- Provide adequate & safe piped drinking water & water for sanitation.
- Increase the water storage capacity from 253 bcm to 304 bcm.
- Launch a pilot scheme to irrigate 10 lakh ha with treated waste water.
- Develop recharging zones to make groundwater resources sustainable.
Sustainable Environment
- Reduce PM2.5 to <50; effective implementation of solid waste management rules.
- Upscale technologies for crop harvesting & utilization of farm residue.
- Encourage nationwide implementation of bio-digester toilets.
- Convert urban vacant areas to urban green areas.
Land Resources
- Strengthen land markets by efficient allocation, secure property rights etc.
- States may consider the Model Land Leasing Act, 2016.
- Implement effectively the Forest Rights Act in all states.
- Update & digitize land records in a user-friendly manner.
Data-Led Policy-making
- Ensure timely generation & dissemination of data for evidence-based policy-making.
- Create state data repositories based on guidelines drawn up by central government.
- Use tertiary big data collected by private third parties.
- Update government statistical organizations on new technologies.
- Ensure universal access to bank accounts, insurance & pension
- Integrate an Arthik Shiksha Abhiyan in the regular school curriculum.
- Use technology to improve assessment of credit-worthiness of small borrowers & households etc.
- Facilitate growth of online digital & paperless banking.
Housing for All
- Provide every family with a pucca house, water connection, toilet & 24x7 electricity supply
- Shift focus of projects to life cycle cost approach instead of cost per square foot approach.
- Use land lying idle with sick/loss making PSUs of central/state governments.
- Consider a sub-category under priority sector lending for affordable houses.
- Increase India’s share in global international tourist arrivals from 1.2% to 3%
- Develop 100 “Smart Tourist Destination Sites”.
- Launch e-visa awareness campaign; enhance number of annual visits allowed under e-medical visa.
- Notify tourism infrastructure projects more than Rs 1 crore as "infrastructure".
Mining
- Target average growth of 8.5%; double area explored from current 10% of OGP
- Launch a mission “Explore in India” by revamping minerals exploration & licensing policy.
- Provide single window & time-bound environment & forest clearances.
- Create a National Mineral Regulatory Authority with subordinate state authorities.
Energy
- Make available 24x7 power to all; achieve 175 GW renewable energy generation capacity.
- Bring oil, natural gas, electricity & coal under GST to enable input tax credit.
- Promote smart grid & smart meters.
- Provide mechanism for cost-effective power grid balancing.
- Double length of national highways; reduce number of road accidents & fatalities by 50%.
- Complete key projects e.g. Bharatmala Pariyojna Phase-1.
- Maintain NH assets by adopting a maintenance management system.
- Earmark 10% of annual budget for road & highways maintenance.
Railways
- Ensure an efficient, safe, cost-effective & accessible rail network; achieve zero fatalities.
- Rationalize fare structures & subsidies, & monetize assets to generate revenues.
- Implement the 22 recommendations of the High-Level Safety Review Committee chaired by Dr. Kakodkar.
- Set up an independent regulator for the Indian Railways.
Civil Aviation
- Increase domestic ticket sales from 103 to 300 million; double air cargo handled.
- Ensure time-bound completion of airports under UDAN. Privatize Tier 1 city airports.
- Reduce taxes on MRO services & consider granting infrastructure status for MRO.
- Promote “Fly-from-India” through the creation of transshipment hubs.
Ports, Shipping & Inland Waterways
- Double the share of freight transported by coastal shipping & inland waterways.
- Complete SagarMala project. Open up India?s dredging market.
- Enact new Merchant Shipping Bill.
- Facilitate access to capital for inland vessels under priority sector lending.
Logistics
- Reduce the logistics cost to less than 10% of GDP from the current level of 14%.
- Develop an IT-enabled platform for integrating different modes of transport.
- Rationalize tariffs & determine prices in an efficient manner across different modes.
- Create an overarching body that maintains a repository of all transport data.
Digital Connectivity
Smart Cities
- Achieve digital connectivity across states, districts; deliver government services digitally.
- Explore efficient spectrum allocation in large contiguous blocks.
- Consider putting in place a credible system to track call drops, weak signals etc.
- Focus on digital literacy at primary school level through the National Digital Literacy Mission.
Smart Cities
- Drive job creation & economic growth; improve efficiencies in service delivery.
- Establish a dedicated Metropolitan Urban Transport Authority in 1 million plus population cities.
- Launch single-window facility for urban poor to access basic services.
- Mainstream the resilient cities approach & integrate it with service levels.
Swachh Bharat Mission
- Make India open defecation free; change attitudes towards sanitation & promoting hygiene.
- Plan behavior change through communication & inter-personal communication campaigns.
- Consider expenditure on bio-toilets/bio-digesters for concession from GST.
- Nudge ULBs to charge adequate user charges for disposal of waste & toilet maintenance.
School Education
- Universal access & retention; improvement in learning outcomes.
- Formulate mechanisms to enforce regulations on teacher qualifications, absenteeism etc.
- Rationalize public school structure, undertake individualized tracking.
- Give children the option of branching into vocational courses
Higher Education
- Increase gross enrolment ratio from 25% in 2016-17 to 35%.
- Ensure effective coordination of higher education regulators.
- Compulsorily accredit all higher education institutions.
- Link funding to outcomes through MHRD & Higher Education Funding Agency.
Teacher Education & Training
- Enforce minimum standards; improve in-service training; resolve teacher absenteeism.
- Establish a committee to develop objective criteria to recognize institutions.
- Redesign in-service teacher professional development programmes.
- Set up a national electronic teacher registry; develop teacher-demand forecast models for all levels.
Skilling
- Increase proportion of formally skilled labour from 5.4% of workforce to 15%; ensure inclusivity.
- Establish single regulatory body to lay down minimum standards for players.
- Initiate vocational education from class VIII.
- Streamline claim process for reimbursement under National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme.
Public Health Action
- To revamp radically the public & preventive health system.
- Co-locate AYUSH services in 50% of PHCs, 70% of CHCs & 100% of district hospitals.
- Institute a public health & management cadre in states.
- Create a focal point for public health at the central level with state counterparts.
Primary Health Care
- Scale-up a new vision for comprehensive primary health, on the platform of Health & Wellness Centres.
- Accelerate the establishment of a network of 150,000 HWCs; Enable mechanisms for rapid scale up.
- Coordinate action to address social determinants of health.
- Catalyse people?s participation for a healthy India: Swasth Bharat Jan Andolan.
Human Resources for Health
- Achieve doctor-population ratio of 1:1400 & nurse-population ratio of 1:500
- Reform governance of medical, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy councils.
- Promote integrative medicine curriculum.
- Develop comprehensive HRH policy in states; generate data on HRH.
Universal Health Coverage
- On platform of PM-JAY, cover 75% of population with publicly financed health insurance.
- Strengthen public sector health facilities e.g. institutionalise district hospital rankings.
- Trigger private investments in supply deficit areas through incentives for hospital empanelment.
- Establish research consortia for high priority diseases.
Gender
- Enhance FLFP rate to at least 30%; create a work environment without barriers.
- Strengthen legal frameworks to eliminate discrimination against women.
- Generate gender-disaggregated data & rank states on key indicators.
- Provide gender friendly facilities in upcoming towns & big cities.
Social Inclusion
- Enable senior citizens, PwDs & transgender persons to participate in economic development.
- Revise National Policy for Older Persons; emphasize concept of „ageing in own home?.
- Generate disaggregated data on PwDs.
Aspirational Districts
- Uplift 115 districts currently lagging behind in development parameters.
- Create a positive narrative of development by making it a mass movement.
- Use data to inform decision-making & spur competition among districts.
- Establish institutional mechanisms for teamwork between centre, states & districts.
North-East Region
Legal, Judicial, Police Reforms
- Develop physical connectivity for enhanced trade; focus on waterways, financial inclusion.
- Encourage each NER state to draw up a development blueprint.
- Address connectivity issues e.g. transit treaties for NER & its neighbours.
- Promote eco-tourism & adventure tourism; ensure early completion of irrigation projects.
Legal, Judicial, Police Reforms
- Ensure safety & security of citizens & access to effective legal systems.
- Create a repository of all existing central & state laws, rules & regulations.
- Address backlog of pending cases e.g. shift part of workload out of regular court system.
- Create task force under MHA to skill personnel & identify non-core functions for outsourcing.
City Governance
- Transform cities into economically vibrant & environmentally sustainable habitats.
- Recognise each city as a distinct unit of the economy; develop a quarterly city dashboard.
- Articulate a framework for city governance that includes development authorities, other parastatals etc.
- Establish a modern national framework for spatial planning of cities.
Water Resources
- Provide adequate & safe piped drinking water & water for sanitation.
- Increase the water storage capacity from 253 bcm to 304 bcm.
- Launch a pilot scheme to irrigate 10 lakh ha with treated waste water.
- Develop recharging zones to make groundwater resources sustainable.
Sustainable Environment
- Reduce PM2.5 to <50; effective implementation of solid waste management rules.
- Upscale technologies for crop harvesting & utilization of farm residue.
- Encourage nationwide implementation of bio-digester toilets.
- Convert urban vacant areas to urban green areas.
Land Resources
- Strengthen land markets by efficient allocation, secure property rights etc.
- States may consider the Model Land Leasing Act, 2016.
- Implement effectively the Forest Rights Act in all states.
- Update & digitize land records in a user-friendly manner.
Data-Led Policy-making
- Ensure timely generation & dissemination of data for evidence-based policy-making.
- Create state data repositories based on guidelines drawn up by central government.
- Use tertiary big data collected by private third parties.
- Update government statistical organizations on new technologies.
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