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Lesson 20:Post –Independence era

Nilokheri Experiment

It was started to settle the 7000 displaced persons (from Pakistan) and later integrated with 100 villages surrounding Nilokheri. It was built around the vocational training centre that was transferred from Kurukshetra in July 1948 to the 100 acres of Swampy land on Delhi Ambala highway. This scheme was called "Mazdoor Manzil".

Objectives:

1. Self sufficiency for rural cum urban township in all essential requirements of life.
2. Making provision of work and training for the people according to their native background.
3. To check middle men.
4. To enable transactions between the consumer and the producer, to approach a vertical order.

Activities:

1. Polytechnic training for B.D.O. and S.E.O. and V.L.W.
2. Housing and marketing facilities.
3. Management of schools, hospitals and recreation centre.
4. To make the cultivable land of all 700 acres of Swampy land.
5. Cooperative credit facility.
6. Small scale industries were run on cooperative basis.