Agriculture
- Higher public investment in agricultural research, rural infrastructure, and irrigation
- Revival of the rural cooperative credit scheme, doubling the flow of rural credit, easing the debt and interest burden on farmers
- Protecting the farmers from cheap imports when international prices fall
Education
- Increasing the public spending in education to at least 6 per cent of GDP
- Mid-day meal schemes in primary and secondary schools
Health
- Increasing the public spending on health to at least 2-3 per cent of GDP
- A national health insurance scheme for the poor
Employment
- Minimum 100 days' employment to at least one person in every poor and lower-middle-class household
- A food-for-work programme in the interim Massive support to small, informal, and unorganised sectors
- Social security and health insurance for the small-scale workers
Food and Water
- Special schemes to make food available to the destitute
- Grain banks in food-scarce areas, desalination plants lining the Coromandel Coast
Infrastructure
- Public investment in infrastructure to be enhanced
- Massive expansion of social housing and housing for the rural poor
