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independence means all sorts of independence. The small scale industries provide economic independence including following factors.
a) Independence of employment - No body (labour) has to depend on wealthy capitalists in order to have employment.
b) Freedom from Exploitation - When labours are employed in their own small scale industries they become free from exploitation.
c) Free availability of necessary commodities - People produce things according to their own necessities. So they have not to depend on others for their necessary items.
d) Raw materials in own villages - Gandhiji has advised that small scale industries may be established in the villages accordings to the raw-materials available there so that industries may not be depended on others for raw-materials. Bhūdāna Yajña
Bhūdāna Yajña is one of the strong pillars on which 'Sarvodya' is based. Theory of Sarvodaya i.e. development of all, has been established by Mahatma Gandhi. Ācārya Vinoba Bhave the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi has established the theory of Bhūdāna Yajña and Samagra Dāna in his own way.
The term 'Bhūdāna Yajña' consists of three words - Bhū, means land, but Dāna and Yajña do not have their popular meanings. They have special meanings given by Vinoba Bhave.
'Dāna' - The ‘Dāna' of Bhūdāna Yajña means neither the dāna of Vedic tradition, nor the charity of Christianity, nor the Jakät of Islamic tradition. It is not based on kindness. It is a transfer of right (Sampradāna). In the marriage ceremony the word Dāna does not symolise kindness, in the same way Dāna of Bhūdāna Yajña does not represent any type of kindness According to Vinoba Bhave the so called owner of land is not truly its owner just like the father of a bride who is never treated as her master. He is simply the patron as the father is guardian of his daughter. As a father hands over his daughter to an able person (Supātra), a landowner should hand over
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