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

Economy of Permanence
etc. and if the processes, which are unhygienic, be carried out by simple
machinery. If this involves a transformation of the scattered chamar
families into a central tannery for a tahsil or district, the change may be for
the better. Such tanneries may be owned and managed by Co-operative
Societies only of the chamars.
5. At present, there are a few selected places where leather manufactured
goods are produced on a very big scale and distributed over the whole
country. This system must be discouraged and local manufacture of
practically all the leather goods, such as foot-wear, money purses, suitcases
etc. should be encouraged, either the local manufacture may be subsidised
or the imports taxed.
Subsidies should be given to individual contractors or Cooperative Societies
for the preparation of manure from blood, flesh and bones from the
carcasses.. The subsidy should be in proportion to the output of manure.
6. Glue, guts, brushes, and other byeproducts can also be prepared by these
societies. The horn industry can be profitably introduced among chamar
families. It should be encouraged by subsidy for some time and by the
purchase of the finished products by the government for its use. The
necessary equipment should, of course, be supplied on hire.
8. Soap-Making
A survey of deposits of sajji matti should be carried out. And wherever such
deposits of sajji matti are found, soap makers should be allowed to collect
them without any tax or royalty being demanded of them. Incidentally, it may
be observed that the removal of this deposit improves the quality of the land.
Caustic lye prepared from Sajji matti and non-edible oils should be utilized for
soap manufacture in villages.
9. Lighting
The non-edible oils as neem, karanji, candle nut, pardi, mahua, rayan, etc.,
which are very little used at present, should be utilized also for lighting
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