5th_APRIL 1ST_2015

POLITICAL COMMENTARIES
The overflowing Gulab Sagar dam on Mahan River (tributary of Banas River) in Khaddi
Khurd village of Rampur Naikin tahsil in Sidhi district, Madhya Pradesh. (October 2013).
prosperous states in the country.
What are your suggestions to
the state government follow-
ing your research?
I feel that the great work being done
in agriculture and irrigation should
be continued. I am not saying that
there should not be focus on trade
and manufacturing, but nothing
should be done at the cost of agriculture.
Because agricultural prosperity
is what becomes the bedrock for
prosperity in trade, manufacture
and services also.
The steps taken by the Madhya
Pradesh government in improving
the agricultural status and irrigation
in the state should be talked
about. So much is being done in that
state, but hardly anything is being
talked about. Only a few know about
this miracle that is happening in
Madhya Pradesh. Let us celebrate
the miracle, it shall give us the
strength and encouragement to
continue in the same direction.
(Dr. Bajaj has compiled and edited a
comprehensive Agricultural Atlas of
Madhya Pradesh. The Atlas, to be jointly
published by the Centre for Policy Studies
and the Madhya Pradesh Council for
Science and Technology is in press.)
(Interview by Shubhendu Anand, a
graduate of Tata Institute of Social
Sciences and currently a student of law at
University of Delhi and a Research
Associate at SMPRF).
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