The Indian Journal of Social Work December 1940

It thus curbed selfishness and made the capable members of the caste fulfil their obligations to the less capable members—unlike the prsent class system of the West which divides the rich from the poor the learned from the ignorant and prevents the benefits of wealth or learning reaching the poorand ignorant except as the result of condescending charity. [...] The Report incorporating the reports of the Provincial Governments on the expenditure of the rural development fund allotted to the Provinces by the Central Government is most interesting reading. [...] It is a story of agricultural improvements the improvement of rural sanitation and hygiene cultural advance the provision of new facilities for education the construction of roads and bridges of increasing the water supply the provision of village play-GOVERNMENT AND RURAL RECONSTRUCTION 311 grounds of improved methods of marketing and the consolidation of holdings. [...] It contemplated the establishment of a rural development association in each District consisting of the local officers of the various development departments one or two representatives of the local district board and selected non-officials under the chairmanship of the District Officer. [...] The landlord contributes the land and usually the seed and part of the expenses of cultivation—ordinarily half the cost of transplanting— while the tenant contributes cattle his own labour and the remaining expenses of cultivation.