Need to bridge the gap between India and Bharat

Sangarsh- A movement for Justice, Equality, Peace, Prosperity and Brotherhood organised the second lecture under its "Sangarsh Lecture Series" on 12/11/2009 titled: 'Effect of Recession on Indian Economy'. The resource person was Prof. Deepankar Sen Gupta from the Department of Economics, University of Jammu. In his lecture Prof. Sen Gupta gave a comprehensive insight and perspective of Indian economy in terms of its internal and external aspects. He highlighted the effect of Recession on Indian economy keeping in view the parameters which has absent to insulate the Indian economy and stressed on the need for decoupling with a focus on the agriculture which is the main state of the Indian economic infrastructure.

In order to prevent Indian economy from getting derailed he urged the policy makers to focus on the domestic services and the human capital,less than 40% of the Indian economic agriculture driven which otherwise should have been 60%.

To make the Indian economic system fulproof he stressed for the empowerment of the Panchyati Raj System at the grass root level which enable the Indian agrarian economy to take roots in the Indigenous way and bridges the gap between India and Bharat which are otherwise parallel in Indian- Politico-Economic system, the need is to converge the two and create a viable, vibrant and shockproof economic environment in the country.

The proceedings of the programme were carried out by Mr. Mahesh Kaul, Organising Secretary, Sangarsh while the vote of thanks was delivered by the General Secretary of the movement Mr. Suresh Kumar.Prominent among others who were present include Sachin Bhagat, Krishan Dev Singh, Meenakshi Anand, Taniya Akhter, Tabish Tanvir, Nitin Sharma and Monika.