In this sense, India’s Twelfth Five Year Plan is similar to the PRC’s Twelfth
Five Year Plan, which seeks to improve the livelihood of rural Chinese by increasing
urbanization and industrial efforts in central and western PRC. By contrast,
however, while the PRC Government seems to be continuing with nationwide
industrialization efforts, the Indian Government may be attempting to promote
a policy of reverse migration by making rural living more attractive with some
access to modern amenities (2point6billion.com 2011).
The plan is also expected to encourage the development of India’s education,
health, and social welfare, and to create employment by developing India’s manufacturing
sector. For India to genuinely embrace inclusive growth, it also needs
to rebut the discrimination and denial of opportunity that the caste system has