Abstract

The complexity of the Indian situation, as it exists to day is so immense and the causes so complicated that it is wellnigh impo- ssible to think of any one aspect as divorced from the other. Yet two problems, the unemployment of the educated and the agricultural backwardness of the masses do loom large on our socio-economic horizon. These two problems have during the past few years defied all attempts at solution and continue to make a demand on the con- structive statesmanship of the greatest of us. And therefore any scheme or any course of action which combines in itself the solution entire or partial of these two important issues merits not only careful consideration but a bold trial, and it would be ideal if a solution of either problem can be achieved as a direct or indirect result of the other being tackled. Of the two issues, the unemployment of the educated middle class being considerably smaller in magnitude, can he tackled first and the enormous energies of educated youth can be liberated and harnessed to the advantage of "greater India". When sure enough we will be nearer the solution of the rural problem with the field of scientific agriculture being so vast and so pregnant with potentialities, that it affords a promising field for the absorption of the energetic youth. If during the last so many years no considerable number of the educated classes has gone back to the land. it is due to no fault of theirs. Students from arts colleges found themselves unfit for the task, and even the graduates of agriculture Incked push and courage to fall back on their own resources. Above all, a secure and comfortable berth in Governmennt service as against the hazardous profession of agriculture held out more temptations. Circumstances have thus conspired to make the Indian youth develop a lethargic outlook with the result that he would rather remain unemployed than resort to an independent though risky profession, as agriculture is at the present day. Whatever may be the reasons for this deplorable state, the tragic fact has to be holdly faced and unless he is put on the land with all conveniences provided, even a graduate in agriculture is not likely to take to his profession in near future.

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