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Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay considered heavy industries to be of inhuman and dictatorial nature. Give reasons. |
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Answer» According to Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, due to the centralization of large industries and production and due to overwhelming influence of mechanization over demand and fulfillment, large industries become of dictatorial tendency and inhuman. Upadhyay was against heavy industries. He considered heavy industries to be inhuman and dictatorial due to the following reasons: 1. This will reduce equality in-Indian society. 2. These independent producers are not complementary to the craftsman but are unfavourable. 3. They are unfavourable to the principle of work to each and increase technological unemployment. 4. It is capital intensive, which is outside the capacity of the Indian producer. 5. They have a lot of import dependency which puts a heavy burden on our balance of payments. 6. A lot of social price has to be paid for them. Due to urbanization, a huge problem of health, housing, water supply, etc arises. 7. Its production and the management system is complex. 8. It gives birth to exploitation and brokerage units between agriculture and industries. 9. Being concentrated in one place, it obstructs the path of universal and comprehensive development. 10.The lobby of large industries becomes so powerful that they take control of the country’s politics. 11.Big industries generate disparities, and create class-conflict situations in society. Apart from all this, a dangerous side of the big industries is that the big industrialists forge friendship with their foreign capital investors. He is of the view that our country should not be industrialized on the basis of foreign capital. In addition to the political influence of foreign capital, economic effects are also inauspicious. The use of foreign capital exploits indigenous labour. |
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