Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

V. S. Patvardhan

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The place accorded to small scale industry sector in the process. of economic development and particularly in the process of industrialisation by the policy makers has been quite significant. Expectations and hopes about the sector have been consistently high through the period of planning in the thirty odd years since Independence. In each plan document the importance of this sector has been emphasised. Very recently in the Industrial Policy Statement issued in July 1980, the role of the small sector was reiterated.

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V. S. Patvardhan

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The growth of joint stock companies in India has been phenomenal, particularly in the 'sixties and 'seventies. Side by side the marked growth of companies in the public sector, the number of companies in the private sector has also gone up from 26 thousand in 1964- 65 to over 41 thousand by March 1975. The State Governments have taken various measures to promote industrialization in developing areas by providing incentives, attractive infrastructure facilities and by granting concessions.

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V. S. Patvardhan

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In the second, third and fourth Rural Credit Follow-up Surveys conducted by the Reserve Bank of India for the years 1957-58, 1958-59 and 1959-60 information about the gross produce, disposal on farm at (or immediately after) harvest, sale of crops and fodder, cash earnings fit>m different sources was collected from the selected cultivators in the General Demand Schedule.At the time of field work information was gathered in the relevant blocks of the Demand schedule according to various crops.

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V. S. Patvardhan

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This committee appointed by the Government of India in October 1964, submitted its import in September 1965. In its report the Committee has presented certain estimates of fertilizer production, consumption in the context of the fourth plan, and credit needed by different agencies and farmers for requisite use of fertilizers, and recommended substantial changes in the marketing and distribution of available fertilizers during the period of the fourth plan. As such the report has considerable importance and merits close examination.

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V. S. Patvardhan

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SINGE Independence and particularly after the All-India Rural Credit Survey, the co-operative mode of organization has b^n assigned a fairly important pl^e in the development of agriculture in India. While the co-operative movement is sot new in India, it Is much older in Britain. It may be profitable, therefore, to examine the contribution of co-operation to agriculture in the United Kingdom.

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V. S. Patvardhan

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The Bombay State Co-operative Bank Ltd, appointed a Crop Loan Evaluation Committee in October 1955 to evaluate the working of the crop loan system within the area of operation of the Bank.

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