In this article for Mint, Dr Niranjan Rajadhyaksha, Executive Director, Artha Global, how India needs a Green Revolution-style supply boost in clean energy to break today’s energy and balance-of-payments constraints excepts below:
“Swaminathan played a central role in the transition of our country from begging bowl to bread basket. India would have faced unimaginable pressure in the 1970s but for the success of the Green Revolution. The subsequent economic acceleration would also have been difficult to pull off.”
“The Revolution politically empowered an important part of the Indian peasantry as well. And the availability of domestic food grain helped India break its dependence on food aid from the US, and thus gain more degrees of freedom in its foreign policy. The upshot: The success of the Green Revolution thus was far wider than is commonly believed.”
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