Notes on Rural Industrialization

This brief note pleads for the adoption of an entirely changed approach to the problem of Rural Industrialization. The current approach is the result of historical developments. Various Boards such as the Khadi, the Handicrafts, the Handloom etc., and other authorities have operated in this field for some years. The Rural Industrialization Committee was established chiefly to coordinate and unify the work of these various authorities. Therefore, the work of the Committee has been taken to be coterminous with that of these authorities and the approach of the Committee and its methods of work have also been appropriately determined. I consider this to be unsatisfactory.