Village Artisans- In Debt and Bondage

up in the development effort, he was contradicting his Finance Minister who had on more than one occasion be moaned sluggishness in investment and failure of the private sector in parti cular to respond to the. new opportu nities. Manmohan Singh followed up his contention by pointing to 20 per cent increase in disbursements 'by fin ancial institutions last year compared to the previous year