Udai Desai examines in his article major "impacts of education policy in India". He describes briefly the remarkable growth of educational institutions, making education vastly accessible as is evident from the corpus of scientific and technical personnel (third largest in the world) and evolving of a development strategy which is technology based. Desai finds that education policy has registered a very positive impact on India's economic development by relying "heavily on technological solutions to problems of a poverty and low productivity" because "while the emphasis has shifted between industry and agriculture from time to time, the central faith in technology and science as the solution has not wavered