Importance of Green Revolution in India’s Economic Development

 Dreamt of being a time traveller since my childhood,

Wondered what if I had the power to control the mighty time?

Worked hard to gather all the fascination,

And I finally succeeded in making the machine that can bend the future like slime.

But I’m not going to see the future because I don’t want to open the box of my fate so ahead of time,

So searching through the past book to opt in which decade to go,

20^th century looks good to see how they grew,

Found a term ‘Green Revolution’ and now I’m curious to know.

It all started with an efficacious speech on 8 March 1968,

When William S. Gaud first time used the term ‘Green Revolution’;

A set of research technology transfer,

Which increased agricultural production worldwide.

Going in the time after the independence of India of feeding the ever-growing population,

This starts with my feet on the road of painful thorns to finally leaving the road behind to see the sunshine;

Because every obstacle is won with an ever growing heart which knows that this pain is going to end someday,

And which hustles to see the fruits of success which glints like a chime.

After the brutal rule of British, the economy was like a glass in shards,

The enfeeble country had become the prey of frequent famines, low productivity and financial instability charts,

These people were under a grey sky for so many years, it pains me to see that,

But I’m peculiar to know how they got out of that.

The rapid increase in the population led to the need of increase in agricultural productivity,

Improving farm production and productivity was included in the government’s second five year plan;

Chose seven districts from seven states during 1966-67,

To launch the aspiring development plan, naming it ‘Green Revolution in India’.

Advanced the technology and mechanization of traditional agricultural activities,

To see the agricultural productivity bloom like it had never done before;

A revolution headed by Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji in 1965,

Led to the relief of thousands of peasants in India.

But as we all know power comes at a price.

While Punjab is considered as the Green Revolution’s most celebrated success story,

The picture is also no longer rosy.

Excessive use of pesticides resulted in fouling the beautiful natural resources,

The mothers lost their life in form of their children,

Nature’s beauty worsened like a wound left helpless in the storm,

The deadly cancer then spread like a fire as it sought the sunshine long captured in a den.

Shortly the government sorts out ways to overcome the stumbling block,

And through their witted mind they took their people out of the peril.

Anything done is done with a purpose of whether waking up from a nightmare or to destroy the creator of the nightmare;

We all seek the ray of hope in times when we are unable to lift ourselves up,

And in my belief the ray is sent by god in the form of helper or lifter,

For all of us to know what we are potent of overcoming the obstacle cup.

As I went deeper in the stage of the revolution,

I saw many clouds of both suffer and success;

But the cloud of success shined brighter,

As the muffled weeps of pain never wins over the happy cries of success.

I learnt that this revolution helped the workers to achieve self-sufficiency,

The farmers could finally be at peace;

The revolution also paved the way for producing more crops on a small piece of land,

And removed the option of shortage of lands in the list.

This turn also enabled the farmers to sell their surplus in markets,

Made earning money easier;

And increasing the export to a large extent,

Achieving what they dreamt at nights.

I wish I could tell them how proud I am of them,

But I know that I am not in the lights.

The clock engine beeped and the time has come,

For me to wave my hand in happy tears,

To this brave time in line.

It’s just that I am not ready to say goodbye to this motivational era.