This movement was started by V.T. Krishnachari in 1932 in the Baroda.
In the first instant its objective was to bring about a rapid increase in standards of living, industrialization and rapid expansion of the educational system.
The second objective was to increase agricultural production through the provision of basic necessities for the development of the same.
Objectives
(1) To improve the life style of rural people rapidly.
(2) To spread education and industrialization.
(3) To develop the necessary factors for the progress of agriculture.
Many programmes such as gardening, poultry-farming, bee-keeping, spinning and weaving were organized.
Re-stabilization of Panchayats and other programmes of village progress were organized.
The adult education had been extended