India, after WW2, was in a state of distress because of the way the British abandoned their job of looking after India (their colony) for the sake of fighting in World War 2. After the War during the 1940’s and 50’s, Jawaharlal Nehru, India’ first prime minister, strived to obtain the proficient transportation of natural resources like Russia had. He also did not believe that the private sector after the Great Depression would lead India to any large economic advances alone. Therefore, he had certain industries controlled by the government and had it have a close watch over the growth of the economy and create a positive export and transport of India’s grains. He installed the Economic Activity and Planning Commission, which observed and directed the economy, with no addition from the Private Sector. This commission had poor results, but the economy eventually became balanced, but had an extremely low rate of growth, making the government aware that the state enterprises were hurting public resources. Then in 1980, Nehru’s grandson came into rule and planted more unsuccessful liberal economic policies of foreign investment. When Rajiv Gandhi created reforms that lowered taxes and tariffs, the economy boomed and faced a fantastic increase of 5.6%, and once said “For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls,” relating to the Indian Economy before his improvements.