The National Development Council (NDC), the country’s highest policy making body at the political level, will meet on Wednesday to give final shape to the Eleventh Plan (2007-2012).

The NDC meeting, which is to be chaired by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while discussing the draft Eleventh Plan is likely to deliberate on an ‘inclusive plus growth’ strategy that will enable all sections of society to benefit from the ongoing growth momentum, Planning Commission sources told Deccan Herald.

The NDC will also be attended by chief ministers from all states, who are expected to give their states’ perspective. The draft Eleventh Plan, which was approved by the Planning Commission at its full meeting held early in  November this year, has already received the approval of the Union Cabinet.

Inclusive growth

Amidst growing criticism of economic development bypassing a large section of the population, the draft document proposes to make growth more inclusive by introducing specific national and state level targets to monitor programmes like poverty alleviation.

The Plan draft document aims for an average growth rate of 9 percent accelerating it from 8 percent in the first year of the Plan to 10 percent by the end of the period (2011-2012). The document proposes 27 targets at the national level and 13 at state level that will be monitored at regular intervals by the Union and state governments.