• Dr.Ch. Rajalingam

The task that the democratically elected leaders of newly independent India embarked on in the early 1950s was not for the faint of heart. It was to lift living standards of a people accounting for one-seventh of the world’s population who earned an average income that was one-fifteenth of the average American income of the time.1 Three-fourths of the Indian people were engaged in agriculture working with primitive tools and techniques, as either destitute landless labourers, highly insecure tenants-at-will, or small-plot holders eking out subsistence living from their meagre plots. The literacy rate stood at 14 percent, and the average life expectancy was thirty-two years.

Economic Development-strategy of economic development, its achievements, shortfalls, and future challenges

"The History of Economic Development in India Since Independence", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.154-162, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907W24.pdf

"The History of Economic Development in India Since Independence", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp154-162, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907W24.pdf