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Economic Aspect of Non-Violence
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According to Samagradāna, the land will be utilised by the individuals but the ownership will belong to the Village - Organisation (Grāma Pancāyat). One family will get only 5 acres of land and the remaining lands will be common to all. Expenditures concerning tax, education, medicine etc. will be paid from collective production. The economic management of public work will be done by collective land and production. After every eight or ten years land will be distributed according to the number of families. The areas of land allotted to different families will be increased or decreased according to the ratio of family members. The right of land for the allotted period will belong to the person to whom land has been allotted. People will work in the collective land, having thought of their own. There will be no mastership of land. Every body should feel the land of his own, without any idea of its mastership as a father feels affection with his children though he does not have any feeling of mastership on them.
In the management of total offer (Samagra Dāna) cottage industries will be established so that people may have all things of their use in the villages, all may have employments and no body will be compelled forexploitation by going to the large scale industries. There will be a single standard of education in all villages. In the morning children while in the evening adults will be taught for one hour. The hand-craftand spiritual teaching will haveequal importance in education. The villagers will be trained to be free from taking wine and smoking. The loan will be given by the village not by some rich person. In the case of marriage, economic management will be done by the village so that father of bride will not take any personal loan.
According to Vinoba Ji Samagra Dâna has its four types of good results -
i) Economic Result, ii) Cultural Result, iii) Ethical Result and iv) Spiritual Result. The economic result will cause the economic development of village because the Samagra Dāna will bring economic revolution consisting of following factors -
a) In agriculture, attention will be paid to the necessity and amount of the things to be produced.
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