Poverty in India is a cause for concern even after 62 years of Independence. Poverty indicates a condition in which a person fails to maintain a living standard adequate for his physical and mental efficiency. India has the world’s largest number of poor people. Of its nearly 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated 260.3 million are [...]

World’s worst food crisis of all times occurred in 1943, in the state of Bengal. The ‘Bengal Famine’ in British-India claimed over four million lives on the account of acute food shortage and mismanagement. Post-independence, among other most important priorities for India, was self-sufficiency in food. After a long period of sustained efforts from 1947 [...]

World’s worst food crisis of all times occurred in 1943, in the state of Bengal. The ‘Bengal Famine’ in British-India claimed over four million lives on the account of acute food shortage and mismanagement. Post-independence, among other most important priorities for India, was self-sufficiency in food. After a long period of sustained efforts from 1947 [...]

Today, India fares among the fastest growing nations in the world and has secured the 12th slot, in the terms of the size of its economy, as per the market exchange rates. However, it falls behind even its peers among the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries. According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), [...]