• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Double current growth rate of manufacturing sector.
• Develop self-sufficient clusters of manufacturing competence, with plug & play parks for MSMEs.
• Introduce a “single window” in states providing a single point of contact between investor & govt
• 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 Plan
• 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.
• Provide every family with a pucca house, water connection, toilet & 24x7 electricity supply
• Use land lying idle with sick/loss making PSUs of central/state govt
• 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.
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.
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.
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.
Railways
• Ensure an efficient, safe, cost-effective & accessible rail network; achieve zero fatalities.
• Rationalize fare structures & subsidies, & monetize assets to generate revenues.
• 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.
• Promote “Fly-from-India” through the creation of transshipment hubs.
• 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
• 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.
• Achieve digital connectivity across states, districts; deliver government services digitally.
• Consider putting in place a credible system to track call drops, weak signals etc.
• Focus on digital literacy at primary school level
• Drive job creation & eco growth; improve efficiencies in services
• Establish a dedicated Metropolitan Urban Transport Authority in 1 million plus population cities.
• Launch single-window facility for urban poor to access basic services.
• Make India open defecation free; change attitudes towards sanitation
• Plan behavior change through communication & inter-personal communication campaigns.
• Consider expenditure on bio-toilets/bio-digesters for concession from GST.
• Universal access & retention; improvement in learning outcomes.
• Formulate mechanisms to enforce regulations on teacher qualifications
• Rationalize public school structure
• Give children the option of branching into vocational courses.
• Increase gross enrolment ratio from 25% in 2016-17 to 35%.
• Ensure effective coordination of higher education regulators.
• Compulsorily accredit all higher education institutions.
• 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 programme
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 deficit areas
• Enable senior citizens, PwDs & transgender persons to participate in eco devp
• Revise National Policy for Older Persons;emphasize concept of „ageing in own home
• Provide for identification of transgender persons in govt & non govt records
• Develop physical connectivity for enhanced trade; focus on waterways, financial inclusion.
• Encourage each NER state to draw up a development blueprint.
• Promote eco-tourism & adventure tourism;
• 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 court
• Reduce PM2.5 to
• Upscale technologies for crop harvesting & utilization of farm residue.
• Encourage nationwide implementation of bio-digester toilets.
• Convert urban vacant areas to urban green areas.