Urge of Gandhian Village Reconstruction Approach in Covid-19 Milieu

Mohan Singh¹

1. Department of Economics, Army Cadet College Wing, Indian Military Academy, Dehradun- 248007.

Section:Review Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.10 , Issue.1 , pp.20-25, Mar-2022

Online published on Mar 31, 2022

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Abstract :
Development is basic instinct of human being but the deliberate planning helps in achieving the desired development targets faster and judiciously. Indian development plans have been through varied facet after independent but remained skewed towards most centralised, heavy industrialised and market driven modern concept of development and eventually, our conventional set up of self-sufficient village economy subsided as a means to achieve full employment, comfortable economic condition and socio-economic justice to the rural people. The result of askew policy we get not only widened gap between village and city, poor and rich but also miseries of urbanisation, over dependency, increase in unemployment and hysterical chase of material acquisition. The most recent data on unemployment and poverty concedes helplessness of the existing format of economic development and induces to think about some alternative or supportive system to assimilate the evils of modernisation. Gandhian concept of village-reconstruction in which villages to be develop as self-sufficient economic, social and political unit called republic which may function of principles of equity, equality and humanity. By supporting agriculture and developing related industries opportunity must be created to provide full employment to the rural people to stop migration and exploitation. In this ongoing world pandemic period of Covid-19, the unprecedented return migration to the village and consequent need for their livelihood, urged to devise localised, sustainable and village-oriented development plan may be based on the Gandhian approach of village-reconstruction.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Development, Village-Reconstruction, Industrialisation, Self-Reliance

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