India from Midnight to 2012

Bangalore: India has come a long way since independence. The country will mark its 65 years of Independence on August 15, 2012. In these 65 years, India has grown up into a vast economy. Saying, that we are fully developed would be a false statement because India is still a developing country.

Since Independence, the economy of India has improved especially in agriculture, private and public sector, education and in technology. In 1950, India wasn’t having enough food to feed 400 million people and often looked desperate for aid from other countries. But presently India is a good surplus nation and feeding over billions of people. After independence, considering India’s growing population, the government had undertaken several steps to increase food production like the Green Revolution where the nation saw a huge increase in wheat production during 1970. The most outstanding achievement of Indian agriculture since independence is the phenomenal growth of foodgrain output.