India is marching towards social and economic progress, more and more rapidly. Here, in the recent years, the government has started many such new programs whose benefits are being directly given to the poor and weaker sections of the society. Thousands of new institutions have been started in the field of primary and higher education. During the year 2008-09, Dr. Manmohan Singh has expressed his views on many issues of the nation. This book presents a glimpse of the new initiative taken towards the economic and social progress of the country.