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The strategy covers 41 crucial areas, that recognizes the progress already made, identifies binding constraints, and suggests the way forward for achieving the clearly stated objectives. These 41 areas have been categorized under four sections: Drivers, Infrastructure, Inclusion and Governance.
1) Drivers:
Some of the key recommendations in the section on drivers include:
- Accelerate the economy to achieve a GDP growth rate of 8% on average during 2018-23.
- Increase the investment rate as measured by gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) from the present 29% to 36% of GDP by 2022.
- In agriculture, shift the emphasis to converting farmers to ‘agripreneurs’ by –
- expanding e-National Agriculture Markets and
- replacing the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee Act with the Agricultural Produce and Livestock Marketing Act.
- Give a strong push to ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’
- Complete codification of labour laws.
- Launch a mission “Explore in India” by revamping minerals exploration and licensing policy.
2) Infrastructure:
Some of the key recommendations in the section on infrastructure include:
- Expedite the establishment of Rail Development Authority (RDA), which is already approved.
- Double the share of freight transported by coastal shipping and inland waterways.
- Deliver all government services at the state, district, and gram panchayat level digitally by 2022-23 by leveraging Bharat Net programme.
3) Inclusion:
Some of the key recommendations in the section on inclusion include:
- Successfully implement the Ayushman Bharat programme including the establishment of 150,000 health and wellness centres across the country.
- Upgrade the quality of the school education, including the creation of a new innovation ecosystem at the ground level by establishing at least 10,000 Atal Tinkering Labs by 2020.
- Conceptualize an electronic national educational registry for tracking child’s learning outcomes.
- Give a huge push to affordable housing in urban areas to improve workers’ living conditions.
4) Governance:
Some of the key recommendations in the section on governance include:
- Implement the recommendations of the Second Administrative Reforms Commission.
- Set up the Arbitration Council of India to grade arbitral institutions and accredit arbitrators to make the arbitration process cost effective and speedy.
- Address the backlog of pending cases - shift part of workload out of regular court system.
- Expand the scope of Swachh Bharat Mission to cover initiatives for landfills, plastic waste and municipal waste and generating wealth from waste.
