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Rural development initiatives at Silaidaha and Patisar are related to?

AMahatma Gandhi

BRabindranath Tagore

CJawaharlal Nehru

DSwami Vivekananda

Answer:

B. Rabindranath Tagore

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Experiment at Silaidaha and Patisar

  • " Silaidaha in Nadia district was chosen as the centre of his first experiment for rural work.

  • With help of a group of enthusiasts, prominent among them Kalimohan Ghosh, Tagore attempted to deal with the rural problems in a more organized way.

  • Workers and villagers jointly carried out such work as repairing roads and drains, clearing jungles, tanks.

  • In Kusthea, a weaving school was established.

  • New businesses like jute, brick kilns, sugar crushing mill were introduced and introduction of commercial crops. like potato was attempted to give practical demonstration of manures.

  • In 1919 his rural work was shifted to Kaligram Pargana of Pabna district.

  • In patisar, he introduced facilities for medical treatment, public works - like digging of wells, repairing of roads, security for cultivation workers from indebtedness.

  • Three centres were started at Patisar, Kamta and Ratowal, each with a hospital and dispensary.

  • Money collected for welfare Society Fund was utilized for public services.

  • Kaligram provided the first example in Bengal where public works were carried out with the voluntary contribution of individual labour.

Agriculture credit was regulated.


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