Insight - Page 15

Explicit focus had been laid on reducing unemployment since 1956, and considerable progress was made during the first six five-year plans, but the...

Despite fluctuations, industrial development progressed at a steady pace through the five-year plans, but the share of manufacturing stagnated towards...

Grown in Kerala’s picturesque environments adorned with valleys, hillocks, rivers, forests etc., Navara rice is not just a nutritious and easily...

The skewed benefits of irrigation, fertiliser use and HYVs under the New Agriculture Strategy, coupled with heavy cost on account of high fertiliser...

KP Agrawal’s magnum opus, British Takeover of India, documents the major treaties that were instrumental in India’s colonisation — exposing, in the...

Though growth targets were seldom met in the agriculture and allied sectors through the five-year plans, production and crop yield increased in...

Community participation and technology are the two basic building blocks that can go a long way in transforming the lives of people at the grassroots...

While the 12 five-year plans lent India a decent industrial base, systematic educational pattern and self-sufficiency in terms of food grains, the...

As karmyogis, the civil servants have been relentlessly synthesising the inputs provided by various sectors to put everything in a wider perspective....

The 12th five-year plan, which would ultimately be intercepted by the formation of NITI Ayog, started with a vision of ‘faster, sustainable and more...

In the second part of the extract from his Civil Services Day address, Sanjeev Chopra highlights that British India’s frontier regulations in...

Amid a global economic downturn, the 11th plan managed to register a ‘commendable’ growth rate of eight per cent but the slowing down of poverty...