"Nehru in an effort to get some legitimacy for his developmental efforts
from the Gandhians sent a member of the Planning Commission in 1951
with a draft of the First Five Year National Development Plan to Vinoba
Bhave for his comments.
After going through the draft Vinoba opined that
in a poor and populous country like India any plan should have as its
priority the utilisation of its vast and cheap human resources which
would lead to both the eradication of poverty and high savings andcapital formation and he did not see any of this in the draft before
him.
Vinoba is reported to have said, " I have found only one useful
thing in this bulky document. It is the pin holding it together. So I am
taking out that useful thing and consigning the rest to the waste paper
basket!" (Dhadda op cit, pp 6)."
The utter generosity of the poor humbles us. They give rice to every mendicant even when their rice is getting over. That is what they are defined by.
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