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'Education, skill development top priority of
12th Plan'
Monday August 06, 2012 10:31:02 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata:
Education and skill development would be the "overriding priority"
of the 12th Five Year Plan even as India's current slow economic
growth rate might affect total outlay of the plan, said a member
of the plan panel Monday.
Allocation for the 12th Plan period (2012-17) would be declared in
a month and the total size of the plan outlay would be
"commensurate with the growth rate", Planning Commission member
Narendra Jadhav told reporters here.
While in 2011-12, the economy grew at 6.5 percent, according to
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia,
deficient monsoon could pull down the growth rate to close to 6
percent.
Ahluwalia recently said the Planning Commission might lower its
ambitious growth target for the 12th Five-Year Plan to 8.2-8.3
percent from 9 percent.
Jadhav, however, said education and skill development followed by
healthcare and infrastructure will remain the top priorities in
the plan period as prior to the 11th Plan, the central government
did little for the sectors, resulting in a "large backlog".
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