M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, in 1997, identified two major goals for the 60th anniversary commemoration.
1. Hunger-free India on the lines proposed by Mahatma Gandhi in 1946 at Naokhali
Over 200 million children, women, and men go to bed now partially hungry. Unfortunately, an integrated strategy is yet to be put in place with the result that the goal of a hunger-free India is nowhere near accomplishment.
2. Knowledge and skill empowerment of rural families with the help of information and communication technology
While connectivity can be achieved, content creation and capacity building will be the greatest challenges. The content has to be dynamic, demand driven, locale specific, and in local languages. As a single step, the rural knowledge revolution is likely to have the largest beneficial impact on the physical, economic, and social well-being of the more than 700 million people living in villages. Poverty will persist under conditions where the human resource is under-valued and material resources are over-valued.
(From this article by M. S. Swaminathan)
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