The Khadi and Village Industries in Globalized India : Role, Challenges, and Future Ahead

Its’ (KHADI) one great merit is that it solves, as nothing else can, the economic problem of India and removes starvation.If we want the millions to earn a few paises by doing honest and honorable work, the only possible instrument to present them with, in our country, is the gentle and graceful spinning wheel.Village economy cannot be complete without the essential village industries such as hand grinding, soap making, paper making, match box making, oil pressing etc. When we have become village minded, we will not want imitations of the west or machine made products, but we will develop a true national taste in keeping with the vision of a new India in which pauperism, starvation & idleness will be unknown