Thank you very much, Doctor. That was very interesting (Applause)
Mk. KAMAL MOHAN CHADHA (INDIA):
Thank you, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to share few works about India Agricultural Policy.
Before that, I would like to mention that I am working in the government as an officer. Normally, we are supposed to listen to the parliamentarians and not speak. And this is a very rare opportunity that I have been given, a chance to speak to parliamentarians. Officers are faceless entities who work behind the scene. Like the women of the home. Similarly, we officers also work behind the scene, we don't come in front. So today there's a chance to speak and it's really overwhelming for me to speak to such an elegant member of MPs.
First, I'd like to take the is issue of sustainable development.
Sustainable development is something that to take only so much from the natural re-sources that your need are fulfilled, but there is sufficient left for the future generations. Our children and their children should be able to enjoy the same fruits which our grand-parents have been enjoying from the nature.
This concept of sustainable development is supposed to be new, as far as the world is concerned. But as far as India is concerned, our scriptures mentioned about it, more than two thousand years back.
In one of the scriptures, Mother Earth told the King, "Pick only so much from my bosom, so that I can reproduce. Don't take so much that I will not be able to reproduce." So that is the crux of sustainable development, that we take only so much from the Earth or from the natural resources, in which for the future, also, we will keep something for the children who are going to follow us.
On this, there's a small story I would like to mention, the case of the hen which laid the golden egg.
There was a farmer, he had a hen. It laid one golden egg every day. So, the farmer was getting the golden egg.
One day, greed overtook him. He said. "Why should I wait every day for one egg? Why don't I kill the hen and take out all the eggs that are in there?" Then and there, he killed the hen and he could not get even one egg.
