The Self Help Village-jrd Tata

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THE SELF HELP VILLAGE

By Team JRD TATA


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The dream

Can You Believe This ?

No one will have to visit a court ever

Not even a single villager has any Loan in any form from any Bank.

The Progress of the village has not been sidelined in wait of anygovernment program implementation.

There is not a Single Political Party in the Village.

Surprisingly noticeable, after entering the village is the distancebetween any two houses. It is around 10-12 feet and totally clean. ABig truck can comfortably be driving around.


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Yes its possible!!

A self help village model helps to achieve all

the previously mentioned points


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What is a self help village Economy?

Gandhian View Of Selfsufficient Village Economy

Gandhi held the view of the maximization of social welfare and for this he givesprime importance to the welfare of the individuals by reducing inequalities inincome and wealth. According to Gandhi every person should be provided withbare minimum necessaries i.e. food, shelter, and clothing. Concentration of wealth

to a few groups of people certainly will shatter the dream of a society which willbe socialist in nature. Gandhi wassin favour of the self-sufficient village economywhere the villages will be the independent economic units. In agriculture thattechniques will be adopted, which will not deplete the soil and pollute theenvironment. For this farmers should use eco-friendly production technique byusing lesser and lesser amount of fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides. He preferswell irrigation instead of large hydro-electric projects since this will lead toexploitation. As regards the ownership of land holding, Gandhi was against thezamindari system and ownership of land should go to the actual tillers of the soil.He also viewed that there should be communal ownership of land for balancedcultivation and the surplus land, if any must be distributed to the rest of the villagecommunities.


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The Self help village Model

There is only one Shop in the village. Everybody buys only from thisshop and it gives credit to every person for a maximum of 3months. Every 3 Months the accounts of the shop are verified.

In case of emergency, A credit of Rs 5000 is issued.

There is no political party in the Village. Every politician iswelcomed warmly, but the decisions are taken in unity by theVillagers.

The School should be constructed by the villagers without waiting

for the implementation by the government.

A Temple/Mosque should be built by the villagers where everydaythere is a spiritual and praying session.


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The youngsters of the village are guided by the elders and they undertake various development

activities.

The judiciary system is jury based and representatives of each community is part of the bench,

So the judgments are fair.

All the community work is done by villagers themselves. And they get paid in

There is a strong presence of barter system, where people exchange grains , food ,milk and

other perishable goods for each other, through the shop.

The school should be connected through the video/audio conference learning , where teachers

from different parts of the country can teach the children.

The same school can have classes for elders in the evening where they get educated and a

minimum level of literacy can be attained for every single villager

There should be gatherings where people share there knowledge about different ways of doing

profitable agriculture.

By the help of voluntary donations from the villagers a hospital should be built , which should

have all the minimum facilities to handle emergency.


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Small scale industries like handicraft , jute bags and clothes should bepromoted.

Water resources should be properly utillized by counstructing small dams,tubewell so that there is no scarcity of water for agricultural as well as personal use

There should be a self help group for women . Women empowerment iscompulsory for sustainable growth of any economy.

A cooperative bank should be setup, which works on the model of Micro-finance . A person can deposit as low as 25 Rs in there savings account, andcan take loans up to 2 lakhs.

Sanitary problems should be addressed , every household should have atleastone toilet.

Farmers should be taught to do organic farming using bio degradable wastesas fertilizers,so the final produce is very organic and healthy in nature,and that

kind of agricultural produce will help them fetch very high prices making themmore and more self sufficient.

This village will be an Ideal example of what can be achieved

by unity and co-operation.


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Conclusion

There is already a Panchayti raj system in

existence, we need to empower Panchyati raj

system,and make it more autonomus so that

they are self sufficent.

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