Economic growth of any country depends upon its resources. Its resources could be manpower, investment capacity, infrastructure and natural resources. India having abundance intellectual skill and natural resource, it lacks adequate funds to invest for infrastructural development, which contributes to economic growth of the nation apart from meeting its social obligation. Through FDI and various funds inflow, lead to the higher growth rate of few sectors especially communication and service sectors. However, the resource sectors such as agriculture, forestry & Mining, community & social services have recorded constant and slow growth during the period covered in the study. This study is an attempt to explore the reasons for slow growth in resource sectors and to identify the highest & lowest growing sectors with change in time to analyze the existing economic policy of India. The study uses the objective criteria of profit motives and behaviour of market forces including regional imbalances between resource and market region.