2. PROGRESS IN
AGRICULTURE
• India’s record of progress in agriculture
over the past four decades has been quite
impressive. The agriculture sector has
been successful in keeping pace with
rising demand for food.
3. BENIFITS
• India has many huge
mountains which abound in
fruit-trees of every kind, and
many vast plains of great
fertility. . . . The greater part
of the soil, moreover, is
under irrigation, and
consequently bears two
crops in the course of the
year. . .
4. Changing Land-Use and Future of
Agriculture
• According to the latest
Agricultural Census in
1970-71 there were 70
million holdings
operating 162 million ha.
By 1990-91 there were
105 million holdings
operating 165 million ha.
5. SUCCESS
• The success of this strategy was made
possible by development and availability
of replicable production technology
packages, so called ‘Green Revolution’
technologies.
6. INDIA’S TOP 5 ACHIEVMENTS
since independence (1947)
1.Maintaining its unity and integrity
2. India’s vibrant democracy
3. The aam aadmi (common man)-specific
programs.
4. India’s Space Program
5. The Nuclear and Missile programs
7. MAINTAINING ITS UNITY AND
INTERGRITY
• This is the most important
achievement of India
since independence
because India has
survived its modern map
despite diverse
challenges. More
importantly, despite such
challenges India’s secular
fabric and its amazing
unity in diversity have
remained intact.
8. INDIA’S VIBRANT
DEMOCRACY
• India has remained an
island of democracy amid a
vast ocean of autocratic
rules in the neighbourhood.
India has been a pulsating,
throbbing democracy and
has emerged as the largest
democracy in the world.
9. COMMON MAN
• Few other countries in the
world would have taken up
such programs and
implemented these with India.
The list is long, but on top of
the Right to Information (RTI),
Right to Education (RTE) and
the Mahatma Gandhi National
Rural Employment Guarantee
Act (MGNREGA).
10. INDIA’S SPACE PROGRAMME
• India has sewn up
space agreements
with over 20
countries. More
importantly, it is now
preparing for its
Mars Mission in
December 2013
11. THE NUCLEAR AND MISSILE
PROGRAMME
• The nuclear
program and the
missile program
form an integral
part of this. India
has been running
the two programs
simultaneously
and successfully.
