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The XI Five Year Plan envisaged the highest growth in the sector of

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Recall the Eleventh Plan's sectoral targets: agriculture about 4 per cent, industry and services in the 9 to 11 per cent band.
Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • Industry
  • Agriculture
  • Services
  • Manufacturing
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The Correct Option is A

Solution and Explanation

The Eleventh Five Year Plan covered 2007 to 2012 and was built around the phrase "faster and more inclusive growth", with an overall GDP target of about 9 per cent a year. The question asks which sector was to grow fastest. Take the options one by one.

  1. Industry: The Plan set industry a target of roughly 10 to 11 per cent a year. That is high, but industry is a broad head that contains mining, manufacturing, electricity and construction, so it overlaps with option (D).
  2. Agriculture: Agriculture was given about 4 per cent, the lowest target of the lot. The Plan treated it as a sector needing revival and support rather than as the fastest mover, so this option can be ruled out with confidence.
  3. Services: Services carried a target in the range of about 9 to 11 per cent and were the main driver of actual growth in that period. Many sources name this sector as the highest.
  4. Manufacturing: The Plan pushed manufacturing towards about 12 per cent so that industry could create the jobs the Plan promised. Read that way, manufacturing carries the single highest number, but it sits inside industry rather than beside it.

Three of the four options sit in an overlapping 9 to 12 per cent band, and two of them are not even separate sectors, so the question cannot be settled from the Plan document alone. Only agriculture can be ruled out for certain. No option is marked here.

Let's summarize:

  • Eleventh Plan targets: GDP about 9 per cent, agriculture about 4 per cent, industry about 10 to 11 per cent, services about 9 to 11 per cent, manufacturing about 12 per cent.
  • Manufacturing is a part of industry, so options (A) and (D) are not mutually exclusive and the question is defective.

Agriculture is definitely wrong; beyond that the question does not have one clean answer.

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