The major overhaul if at all we need to improve India is about agriculture. India was and is an agrarian country. The article is well-written but it fails to answer a few questions: If India has to adopt manufacturing to come to the centrestage of the world, what are we going to do with agriculture? 70% of Indians derive their livelihood directly from agriculture. When India will embrace manufacturing, what will happen to them? Today, we are not self-sufficient in food. With emphasis on manufacturing and neglect of agriculture, we will create a massive socio-economic problem. It will uproot the farmers from agriculture as land will be required for setting up plants. It will 'rape' fertile lands and drive away the farmers as it happened in Nandigram. These farmers will not be absorbed by manufacturing as they are unskilled. So, they will migrate to the cities. Our cities which are already choking due to unplanned growth, will choke further. Manufacturing will cause India's GDP growth but it will fail to create jobs as the service sector can create. In fact, it will cause environmental damage in the name of development. People see China as a success story. Hundred years from now, when the environmental damages of that will come forward, the world will realize the flaws in the Chinese model. The excessive governmental control over media in China has always hidden the actual costs of development. We should not insist development at any cost. At the end, we may end up with loss.
