Abstract :
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Six decades of post- independence policies have
failed to eradicate poverty in India1 In all these decades India
have tried to blindly emulate the western industrial model and in
the process has totally ignored the wisdom of the man who is
known as Father of the Nation. Gandhi was not only a freedom
fighter, but he was also a thinker in his own right. He developed
the philosophy of Appropriate Technology and focused on
Charkha as a tool for emancipation of Indian masses. The
current paper argues that India can achieve its targets by
developing an indigenous model based on appropriate technology
which is labour intensive, instead of importing western
technology which is capital intensive.
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