The document summarizes key aspects of India's 12th Five Year Plan from 2012-2017. The plan aimed for faster, sustainable and more inclusive economic growth with a GDP target of 9-9.5%. It sought to improve agriculture, education, health and social welfare through government spending and create jobs through manufacturing. For health, the plan aimed to increase public health spending, expand insurance coverage, improve infrastructure and focus on women and children. It identified challenges like inadequate health funding and capacity that the plan sought to address.
3. 12th Five Year Plan
The Government of India approved the 12th
five year plan on 4th October 2011.
4. Approach to Plan
12th plan is characterized by strong macro
fundamentals and good performance over
the 11th five year plan.
Objective of 11th five year plan was
‘Towards faster and more inclusive growth’
5. Approach to Plan
-Resulted in substantial progress towards
both objectives. Inevitably there are some
weakness that needs to be addressed and
new challenges that need to be faced.
A key issue is the GDP growth target
6. Why GDP growth is important
Rapid growth of GDP produces a larger expansion
in total income and production .
Will directly raise living standards of population
by providing them with employment and other
income enhancing activities.
It generates higher revenues, which help financing
programmes
7. Vision & Aspirations
The broad vision and aspirants which the 12th five
year 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.
8. 12th Five Year Plan
Proposed target range of GDP growth of 9.0 –
9.5 %.
This plan is expected to be the one that
encourages the development of India’s
agriculture, Education, Health and Social
welfare through government spending.
Also expected to create employment through
developing India's manufacturing sector.
9. Health
Health is another critical dimension of human
capability, which needs much greater attention.
Better health is not only about care , but about
better prevention.
The 11th five yr plan drawn attention on India's
health indicators, which continue to be still weaker
than they should be at a level of development.
10. Failures of 11th five year plan (2007-11).
GDP growth was target to reach 9.0 % but reached
only 8.2 %
Fails to achieve
IMR goal :28 /1000 live births.
42 per 1000 now aimed to 25 per 1000.
MMR goal: 1/1000 per live births
TFR :2.1 present 2.5/1000
Child sex ratio at birth improved by 2 points to
908 from 906 Fm/1000 M.
11. Challenges and constrains of 12th five year plan
Expenditure on health by centre and states to
increase from 1.3% of GDP to at least 2.0% of GDP
by the end of 12th five year plan.
(and perhaps even 2.5 % ).
At present less than 30% of out pt and less than
half of In pt capacity of the country is in the Govt.
sector.
12. Challenges and constrains
Majority population relies on the private
health care provision which often imposes
the heavy financial burden
-Therefore aiming to expand public sector
capacity in health care especially in rural
areas.
Desperate shortage of medical personal.
Increase seats in medical college, nursing
colleges.
13. Challenges and constrains
Improve quality of NRHM services there by developing
infrastructure.
o Particularly drinking water, sanitation, nutrition and
immunization programmes.
Role of PPP in secondary and tertiary health care must be
expanded.
Health insurance cover should be expanded.
Focus on women and children health.
14. Resources :
Total plan size has been estimated at 47.7 lakh cores.
6.92 crores for health
Resources for the plan are being worked out in
collaboration with ministry of finance