The Planning Commission today said that expansion of health care facilities in the country will be one of its top priorities during the 12th Five-Year Plan. The Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said this while talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi today. He said that the Commission aims to increase the spending in Health sector to 2.5 per cent of the GDP against about 1 per cent at present. He said that the healthcare sector was a focus area in the ongoing 11th Plan as well and the efforts will continue in the 12th Plan from 2012-17. In its Approach Paper to the 12th Plan, which was approved by the full Planning Commission headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month, the Plan panel had emphasised on increased spending in social sectors, including health and education. Mr. Ahluwalia said that the Srinath Reddy Committee on Healthcare will submit its report by the end of this month. Our correspondent reports, the high-level expert group was set up by the Planning Commission in 2010 to examine the prospects for a universal health cover and to develop a blueprint and investment plan for meeting the human resource requirement to achieve the objective of health insurance for all by 2020.