| The independent India, at the age of about 60 years is shining with its economic growth marked at 9.2% for the second quarter of 2011-12. However, at this desirable and worth appreciating growth rate, its basic sector (agriculture) is still limping with a mere 1.7% for the same period. Notwithstanding the fact that the main stream economy still depends heavily on the rural economy with its contribution of about 50% to the GDP while the contribution of agriculture per se is only 21%, it is a pity that the economy marks an un-bridgeable chasm between is an economy of 23 to 30 percent which is impregnable by the economic, political and administrative processes of India. |