States: West Bengal’s economy declined from the early 1960s
Virendra Pandit New Delhi: West Bengal, which held the third-largest share of national GDP at 10.5 percent in 1960-61, now accounts for only 5.6 percent in 2023-24, and has seen a consistent decline throughout this period, a government report has said. The state, whose largest city Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the British Raj’s capital in […]