Explain the targets of the 12th Five Year plan.

Targets for infrastructure are:

• To connect all villages of a country with all-weather roads. 
• To increase rural television and telephone density to 70%. 
• To increase infrastructure investment to 9% of G.D.P. 
• To upgrade national and state highways to a minimum two-lane standard. 
• To achieve real GDP growth rate at 8%, agriculture growth rate at 4%, and manufacturing and industrial growth rate at 10 %.
•  To reduce the headcount ratio of poverty by 10%. 
• To create 50 million (5 crores) new work opportunities in the non-farm sector.
• To increase average years of schooling to 7 years. To eliminate gender and social gap in school enrollment. To reduce the total fertility rate to 2.1%.