Thanks to the recent realization that small and micro enterprises have the potential to generate more productive employment opportunities in the nationl economy.Such studies assume importance mainly in the context of changing goverment policies towards this sector.This book reviews the union govermentpolicy towards rural industries.The primary survey has been restricted to a limited sample drawn from the metal enterprises in Kerala state.

Small-scale industries in rural areas in China are today an essential element of regional development programs. This monograph analyzes two main development strategies: technology choices in a number of industrial sectors and the integrated rural development strategy.

Rural Industrialisation Plays A Vital Role In India Due To A Large And Growing Reservoir Of Potential Workers, Abundant Resources Of Raw Materials, Traditional Skills And Large Demand For Goods And Services.This Book Consists Of Selected Papers Presented In The Seminar Organised To Analyse The Impact Of The Economic Reforms On The Rural Industrialisation In India At The Gri. The Book Consists Of Two Papers On The General Theme Of Rural Industrialisation. A Few Papers Discuss About The Growth And Performance Of Rural Industries In India And Other Countries. The Problems And Suitable Recommendations Are Presented In Few Papers Of The Book. A Few Case Studies Are Given For Strengthening The Rural Industrial Policy Measures In India.This Book Would Help The Researchers And Students Involved In The Study Of Rural Industrialisation.

The majority of workers in South Asia are employed in industries that rely on manual labour and craft skills. Some of these industries have existed for centuries and survived great changes in consumption and technology over the last 150 years. In earlier studies, historians of the region focused on mechanized rather than craft industries, arguing that traditional manufacturing was destroyed or devitalized during the colonial period, and that modern industry is substantially different. Exploring new material from research into five traditional industries, Tirthankar Roy s book contests these notions, demonstrating that while traditional industry did evolve during the Industrial Revolution, these transformations had a positive rather than destructive effect on manufacturing generally. In fact, the book suggests, the major industries in post-independence India were shaped by such transformations. Tirthankar Roy s book offers new and penetrating insights into India s economic and social history.

On the importance of small scale agro-based industries.

Monograph exploring India's rural development potential in the field of rural industry and rural area industrialization - focuses on issues of industrialization policy, with particular reference to subsidies and other types of incentives, considers the appropriate choice of technology, the development of cottage industries and small scale industries, and includes a list of rural industrial projects. References and statistical tables.

Viewed mainly as the growth of manufacturing sector as opposed to agriculture and the increased use of inanimate sources of power in the production of goods and services, rural industrialization offers the greatest scope for absorbing the existing and growing labour force outside the field of agriculture. However, rural industrial scene continues to be characterised by the concentration of labour force in agriculture, predominance of traditional crafts, low levels of technology, hereditary mode of production, poor productivity and returns and low labour efficiency and utilisation. Besides glorification of traditional crafts and self-employment, caste-industry nexus, and above all policy bias in favour of agriculture as against industry and large and medium capital-intensive industries as against small village and cottage industries also worked as strong impediments to the development of rural crafts. Drawing from the nationwide experiences, this book examines the problems of the growth and modernisation of rural industries from socio-economic perspectives and probes into the organisational and technology system underlying their production structure with all its implications an ramifications. The reversal of the policy favouring large modern industry sector and the spread of tiny small industries throughout the country with full package of organisational, technical, financial and marketing support in adequate measure have been strongly advocated. In addition, the integration of the development of rural industries with the overall programme of industrialisation was emphasized.