Mahavira Jain Vidyalaya Rajat Jayanti Mahotsava

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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K U. BARODIA
(M. J. V. SILVER JUBILBE 1
wand if we sit with folded hands. If this article will arouse some interest in this direction, its purpose will be served.
As V stands for victory, let P stand for Planning--planning of our Indian economic Life. Let us understand once for all where we are and where we aspire to be. May this movement for planning spread far and wide and may all those who can think, do think and wish to think, think in these terms of the stupendous task ahead of us which will consume every ounce of our energy. India expects every one of us to contribute our mite. The man in the street or men with limited time can help this movement through intense Swadeshism patronising the Indian village and Cottage products, adopting for his or her use, and encouraging every new article which is made in India, a great determination to put up with any hardship or inconvenience in buying India-made things, pressing upon Government the dire need of industrialisation and having a patriotic outlook for all problems related with India.
To summarise, our national life needs thorough reconstruction and our corporate life needs complete overhauling. The reorganisation, rejuvenation and revitalisation of our Indian economic life should start soon--too soon. P for Planning Movement should get momentum from all right thinking persons in this country.
The Congress has, in view of present conditions in India, laid great stress on the encouragement of cottage industries in India. Any planning must therefore take note of this fact and base itself on it. This does not necessarily mean a conflict between cottage industries and large-scale industries. A large number of essential industries, which are necessary for the independence and well-being of the country, must inevitably be on a large scale. The very resolution appointing the Planning Committee calls upon us to provide for the development of heavy key industries, medium scale industries and cottage industries. It lays down that the economic regeneration of the country cannot take place without industrialisation. We have thue to expediate this industrialisation and to indicate how and where key and basic industries are to be started. We have to demarcate, in so far as is possible, the domains of large-scale and cottage industries, and where the latter have been especially fathered by the national movement, to give them every protection and encouragement.
- JAWAHARLAL NEHRU.
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anted. We merialisation and take place