what opportunity have Indians been given.
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With the Green Revolution, India increased its yields using high yielding crop varieties and applying modern techniques in agriculture. Higher yielding varieties of wheat were developed by scientists including MS Swaminathan. The period also saw an increase in the use of chemical fertilisers and irrigation.
India has an opportunity to fully redeem the pledge
Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi
John Harriss
14 AUGUST 2017 13:57 IST
Indians are better fed and clothed than they were in 1947. Now they must be enabled to develop themselves according to their capacities
A little more than 70 years ago, on January 22, 1947, speaking before the Constituent Assembly in the closing debate on “The Resolution of Aims and Objects”, Jawaharlal Nehru said, “The first task of this Assembly is to free India through a new Constitution, to feed the starving people, and to clothe the naked masses, and to give every Indian the fullest opportunity to develop himself according to his capacity.”