Marketing of Rural Products - Strategy for Ensuring Remunerative
Prices to Producer Role of Middleman - Problems and Possible
Solutions Development of Small Scale Industries in India is
being pursued since the beginning of the planning era in
1950-51. The main objectives of the comprehensive plan of small
industries is the creation of widespread employment
opportunities, reduction of inequities, addressing regional
imbalances and creation of a base for entrepreneurial
development. In the 1950s, when the various programmes for
promotion of small industries were formulated, the emphasis was
to gear up production with a view to cater to domestic
requirements. As a result of the policy of planned economic and
industrial development followed during the last fifty years,
village and small industries have made a phenomenal progress in
different parts of the country including rural, semi-urban and
even hilly and remote areas and are now making a significant
contribution towards the National Economy, including export