The Economy of Permanence: A Quest for a Social Order Based on Non-violence (स्थायी अर्थतन्त्र)

Economy of Permanence
discouraged by imposing a tax on implements that polish rice and the degree
of polishing obtained with these should be subject to supervision and
control.
Paddy and other grains and seeds required by the village should be stocked in
the village itself and only the surplus could be sent out and that only through
the Co-operatives Society.
2. Flour Grinding

1. Good quality stones for hand chakkis and equipment for the bullock and
   water driven chakkis should be made available through the Demonstration
   Centres.
2. The production and use of fine white flour, maida, should be banned.
3. Flour mills grind large quantities of grain and hold their stocks of flour for
   long periods. This causes such flour to deteriorate. Therefore, such mills
   should be discouraged.
4. Bullock-driven flour chakkis should be introduced where the necessary
   facilities exist.
5. Wherever water power is available from running water of a river or a canal,
   water driven flour chakkis can be set up.
6. Such chakkis might be owned co-operatively by the villagers as in the
   Punjab.
   3. Oil-Pressing
   The main difficulties in resuscitating the village Ghani are the following:
   The villages are practically denuded of the oil-seeds at the harvest time. To set
   this right only surplus oil-seeds should be allowed 10 go out of the village.
   At some places the local Ghanis are so inefficient and small that it is veil nigh
   impossible to make them a practical proposition. Even in a single province -
   here are numerous types of ghanis. A detailed survey of the working of all such
   ghanis should be carried out. The working and advantages of improved ghanis
   should be demonstrated.
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