Alliance is going to select some villages to develop them as Industrial Village. These villages will be called as NANDI Village. Alliance will industrialize this village by providing them basic support such as skill development, development of social enterprises, technical support, financial support and development of required infrastructure. Every NANDI Village will have NANDI Village Entrepreneurship Development Committee. This Committee will be framed by Gram Pradhan, NGOs, Private Sector and local people.
INDUSTRIAL (NANDI) VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEEWe Adopt the principal of our prime minister - "SABKA SAATH SABKA VIKAS." |  |
In India the rural dwellers, which constitute more than 70 per cent of India’s population are facing the acute problems of unemployment and under-employment. To stress the importance of the development of the rural areas and people who inhabited therein, he said, “Swaraj has no meaning for the millions if they do not know how to employ their enforced idleness. Gandhiji said that, “The economic development is meaningful if aimed at the lifting up of the small peasant and converting the small producer himself into an active participant in productive activity. Therefore, he said that the objective of real development means the development of the rural people.
The Industrial Village principally depends on rural production for their raw material and on the rural population for marketing their products. The process has certain essential conditions. The scope of rural industrialization is considered basically a question of properly utilizing the rich but unexploited national resources in the rural areas. It is a process concerned with the involvement of industries in the development of an area and also participation by rural entrepreneurs in the growth of industries best suited to that specific area. The process of rural industrialization, however, is distinguished from the situation under which certain industries are transplanted in a specific rural area. Rural industrialization term connotes that its sole objective should be uplifting of the rural lot by tapping vast material and human resources existing in the countryside. The process of rural industrialization should have its own features such as low investment of capital, labour intensity and use of simple technology by employing local human and material resources. Thus, a judicious mix of local manpower with the local resource is necessary to bring about a viable development in these areas.
AN APPROACH TO RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION
The rural industries provide immediate large scale employment and they also offer a method of ensuring a more equitable distribution of national income.
Therefore, the development of Industrial Village was, thus, seen as a way of serving the following objectives:
