MAHARASHTRA-Education for a Price

gets depressed for every five-year plan. For the Sixth Plan, foodgrains production in 1979-80 fell by 16.8 per cent and for the Seventh Plan, it fell in 1984-83 by 4.5 per cent. How much of it was truly so and how much due to statistical manipulation, there is no way of knowing. Nevertheless, there is substantial circumstantial evidence regarding statistical doctoring of agricultural data.