{"id":1364,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/the-blueprint-of-gram-swargaj-is-the-key-to-understand-the-upsc-psir-2024-2311\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:54:18","slug":"the-blueprint-of-gram-swargaj-is-the-key-to-understand-the-upsc-psir-2024-2311","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/the-blueprint-of-gram-swargaj-is-the-key-to-understand-the-upsc-psir-2024-2311\/","title":{"rendered":"The blueprint of Gram Swargaj is the key to understand the Gandhian perspective on planning. Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Gandhian planning \u2260 conventional centralised\/industrial <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> self-sufficient village as the blueprint <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> begin here to read his planning<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> <i>Gram Swaraj<\/i> = village self-rule <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> the master design from which his whole economic vision follows <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> hence the key<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>village as the primary unit (economy \/ politics \/ moral life) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> local production + local resource control + Panchayati Raj, participation <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> \u201cIndia lives in villages\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> rural reconstruction at the centre <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> decentralisation \/ production by the masses (not mass production) \/ <i>Swadeshi<\/i> <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> machinery: only labour-displacing &amp; wealth-concentrating opposed <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Gandhian Plan (<b class=\"pq-sc\">Narayan &amp; Agarwal<\/b>): agriculture, land to tiller, cooperatives, rural credit, khadi \u2014 against heavy industry <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Kothari<\/b>: free India took the Nehruvian centralised path, village vision overshadowed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Ambedkar<\/b>: romanticises villages, ignores caste <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> modern economists: hard to apply in a globalised industrial economy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> not an industrial plan but a moral design for self-reliant villages <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <i>Gram Swaraj<\/i> the interpretive key<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> limits notwithstanding <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> the village republic remains the lens for reading Gandhian planning<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[30],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[64],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1364","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-30","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-planning-and-economic-development","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1364\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}