Q.Write a short note on Village Sarvodhaya.

Village Sarvodaya is Gandhi's idea of self-sufficient, self-governing villages working for the welfare of all, later advanced by Vinoba Bhave through the Bhoodan and Gramdan movements.

In the Tamil Nadu HSC Class-11 Economics syllabus, Village Sarvodaya is studied as an approach to rural development:

• Meaning: the word 'Sarvodaya' means 'the rise or welfare of all'. It was Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of an ideal society in which every villager's basic needs are met and everyone progresses together.
• Village self-sufficiency: Gandhi wanted each village to be a small, self-reliant republic (Gram Swaraj) producing its own food and basic requirements, so that villages depend on themselves rather than on outside markets.
• Decentralisation: it stresses cottage and village industries, khadi and handicrafts to provide rural employment and check migration to towns.
• Moral basis: it is founded on truth, non-violence (ahimsa), dignity of labour and trusteeship of wealth. …