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    Nilokheri Experiment

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    The Nilokheri Experiment was started in 1948 to settle 7,000 displaced persons from Pakistan by building a vocational training center and 100 villages on 100 acres of swampland near Delhi. The objectives were to make the township self-sufficient, provide work and training according to people's backgrounds, reduce middlemen, and enable direct transactions between consumers and producers. Activities included vocational training, housing, schools, hospitals, turning the swampland into cultivable land, credit cooperatives, and small industries run cooperatively.

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    The Nilokheri Experiment was started in 1948 to settle 7,000 displaced persons from Pakistan by building a vocational training center and 100 villages on 100 acres of swampland near Delhi. The objectives were to make the township self-sufficient, provide work and training according to people's backgrounds, reduce middlemen, and enable direct transactions between consumers and producers. Activities included vocational training, housing, schools, hospitals, turning the swampland into cultivable land, credit cooperatives, and small industries run cooperatively.

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    The Nilokheri Experiment was started in 1948 to settle 7,000 displaced persons from Pakistan by building a vocational training center and 100 villages on 100 acres of swampland near Delhi. The objectives were to make the township self-sufficient, provide work and training according to people's backgrounds, reduce middlemen, and enable direct transactions between consumers and producers. Activities included vocational training, housing, schools, hospitals, turning the swampland into cultivable land, credit cooperatives, and small industries run cooperatively.

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    The Nilokheri Experiment was started in 1948 to settle 7,000 displaced persons from Pakistan by building a vocational training center and 100 villages on 100 acres of swampland near Delhi. The objectives were to make the township self-sufficient, provide work and training according to people's backgrounds, reduce middlemen, and enable direct transactions between consumers and producers. Activities included vocational training, housing, schools, hospitals, turning the swampland into cultivable land, credit cooperatives, and small industries run cooperatively.

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    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.

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