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food inflation. Sustained improvement in crop yields requires an enhanced focus on
the revitalisation of agricultural research and developmental extension.
Coming to infrastructure, the Planning Commission had estimated that
infrastructure investment ought to grow from the current levels of around 4.6percent
of GDP to 8percent of the same for sustaining the 9percent real GDP growth as
envisioned in the Eleventh Plan. Thus, the investment in infrastructure is expected to
rise by over 3 percentage points of GDP over the Plan period; over the same period,
the Planning Commission anticipated that the overall investment rate ...