Five decades in power and monumental achievements to match those years -- that is what the Congress Party is all about. Achievements in fields ranging from Agriculture and Rural Development to Atomic Energy and Space Science, which have led to the nation's primary objective of attaining self-sufficiency. Particularly in the field of education from 20 universities and some 640 colleges during Independence, the number of educational institutions in India has come up to 119 universities with 1,650 affiliated colleges, five institutes of technology, 250 engineering and medical colleges and 350 polytechnics. The science and technology manpower has increased into the third largest in the world. Expenditure on R&D has increased from Rs 200 million in the First Plan to about Rs 36,780 million in the Sixth (1980-85) -- which is about 0.6 per cent of the GNP. It is being gradually increased every year. Our country is fast catching up with ‘knowledge society’ where professional services are treated as a ‘commodity’ which fetches high remunerations in other countries.
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