Himalayan Times (1957)

Six ^im»l»Ba» S*w«» January 20, 1957

FULL SOCIALIST ORDER FOR INDIA

CONGRESS ELECTION MANIFESTO

. (Continued from previous issue)

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The recent World Bank our village people. The and village industries,

mission has stated that old static Indian village Higher techniques appear

''Proper application '8 changing and yielding to increase unemployment,

of known techniques in place to a mwre dynamic but* ultimately lead to far

conjunction with the possi- conception. These commu- greater employment. Un-

ble expansion of irrigation nity schemes must always employment is partly due

and the cultivated area, kepP in vifw the necessity to the wrong type of

could increase India's ag- of bringing this psycholo- training given to our

ricultural output four or g'ca' cha'nge among the youth. They should be

five fold By the time people. Their primary trained especially from

that has been achieved, objective muBt now be tbe point of view of fitting

new techiniques will have greater food production '"to the scheme of the

been evolved, and the and the growth of small- plan and being utilised

way will be open for scale and village industries. for greater production in

furthre progress Results' "With the advance in ^d small and cottage

of the crop competitions agricllltllre alld the growth industries. With a view

organised for the Grow 0f small-scale and village 'o mtroduee higher techm-

More Food Campa.gn show indllstrje8. the ^disparity ?"*VB T ? , J

yields about seven times that exiet8 tod to Lelp productu n, trained

higher than the local v;ila?eanil towynRho(lld cadres for agncultural

average. India's yields are be p*rogn.8,ive|y ]e8sened. W°rU 8h°uld be °r8an,8f<J-

rLrrthe 3d8 Whh L°Cal initia,iv" "' tbe l"k ^ T»'»«l «»«-P««r

lowest in the world. With villages should be enroure- „r„rv bir,H nf „rn

the labour force available. B«a local w.«h«r«M Every kmd of pr0"

they could be among the TJTS c e gT indu,t'*i

highest. There is thus introduced lclnnlci"e8 culture or any other ac

a great deal of scope for „ ' „ ., ,lvi,y requires training

progress that is techni- Unemployment Problem and education. In spite

oally easy but is retarded "Unemployment is not of the existing unemploy.

by poverty and ignorance". on'y bad for the indivi- tuent, the question of the

dual ooncerned but is a lack of trained man-power

N E. S & Community Projects disorder injurious to social is already coming in the

"The Community Pro- health. Planuing has there- way of advance and is

jeots and the National fore, to aim at the pro- likely to prove a great

Extension Service are gressive lessening of un- hindrance in the future

bringing about a rovolu- employment and its final unless adequate steps are

tionary change in the elimination. This will taken from now onwards,

countryside and developing chiefly take place by tbe It is therefore necessary

a spirit of self-reliance growth of industry and, for training and education

and joint endeavour in more especially, small-scale- -to be organised systemati-