New Delhi, Nov 07: Recognising the huge latent income-generating potential in the agriculture and agro-forestry sectors, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman K C Pant today said that bringing reforms in the agricultural sector formed a core element of the tenth plan.
"It is our belief that the proper kinds of public investment and policy reforms would be able to unleash tremendous entrepreneurial energy in the rural sector, which would create opportunities not only for our farmers, but also in non-farm rural activities," he said.
Pant was inaugurating a two-day national seminar here on 'unorganised sector labour: social protection, skill development and an umbrella legislation for the unorganised sector'. He said the tenth plan stated that unless education and training systems were re-oriented towards imparting skills which were consistent with the projected structure of growth, the availability of skills and not of capital might become the main constraint to growth.

Bureau Report