30 SOCIAL SCIENTIST the expansion programme of the railways and allied industries and frequent changes in the targets of coal production reflect the lack of long-term view of the key sectors. TABLE II PRODUCF ION OF FOODGRAII MS IN TNDI\ BY S >TATF,S States Total fo (000 1970-71 ^od^ain^ tonnes) 1975-76 Percen eol. (I) ta^e of col. (2) (0 w W W l Andhra Pradesh 6886.8 9428.2 6.38 7.80 2 Assam 2070.4 2441.0 1.9^ 2.00 3 Bihar 8145.6 9003.2 7.56 7.45 4 5 67 Gujarat Punjab and Haryana Jammu and Kashmir Karnataka 4406.1 11756.6 1080.8 5962.3 4519.8 13801.8 1043.9 7002.1 4.09 11.00 1.00 5.53 3.74 11.42 0.85 5.79 8 K-erala 1294.0 1378.1 1.20 1.14 9 10 Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra 10796.2 5590.0 12136.6 9106.3 10.01 5.18 10.04 7.54 11 Orissa 4929.4 5461.7 4.57 4.52 12 13 Rajasthan Tamil Nadu 8812.5 7023.5 7719.1 7760.8 8.17 6.51 6.39 6.42 14 Uttar Pradesh 19483.3 19127.4 18.07 15.84 15 16 West Bengal Others 7418.42155.3 8531.5 2401.9 6.88 1.93 7.06 1.99 All India 107811.2 120833.4 100.00 100.00 SOURCE: Bulletin of Food Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture. The public sector has come to be the pace setter for the development of the economy. The draft plan also refers to the close relationship between total investment, particularly public investment, and industrial growth. The periods of growth from 1961-62 to 1964-65, decline during 1966-69 and the recovery dur- ^ ing the fifth plan period are indicative of this relationship. The draft plan, however, fails to provide the requisite outlay for industries in the public sector. The proportion of expenditure on industry and minerals to the total expenditure under the fifth plan was 18.7 percent. This has been reduced to 14.9 percent in the draft plan, though in terms of actual expenditure it amounts to an increase of 40.6 percent. As for the key industries in the public sector, the rate of increase in expenditure between the two plans on coal, steel, railways and heavy engineering industries ranges between 48 and 63 percent. The rate of increase is exceptional for the power industries, being 124 percent. As against the industrial sector, the outlays on agriculture and allied activities are raised by 99.5 percent. The draft plan seeks to solve the problem of industrial stagnation through the widening of the demand base in the rural