Mysuru, April 6 -- Dr. Babu Jagjivan Ram, who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India, had strived for total self-reliance in food through Green revolution.

He was speaking at the stage programme of Babu Jagjivan Ram's 118th birth anniversary celebration organised jointly by the District Administration, Zilla Panchayat, MCC and Social Welfare Department, at Kalamandira on Hunsur road here yesterday.

"Jagjivan Ram, who wanted no one in the country to die of starvation, brought about a green revolution in the country, which transformed grain production. The revolution saw such a success, that we gradually began exporting agricultural produce to other countries", he said and called upon the people to get inspired by great leaders such...