Once the fastest growing state in the country, Punjab today ranks among the laggards in development. In the last decade the state's annual growth rate at 4.7 per cent was slower than the national average of 6.9 per cent. This has naturally hurt the Punjabi pride and led some concerned planners and economists to undertake a serious study of what has gone wrong. On the initiative of the Planning Commission, the Chandigarh based Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development has prepared a development report for Punjab from " a wider and holistic perspective".......Editorial