Social Welfare Reforms

These included the following—

● Prohibition imposed in certain areas.

● Measures for welfare of Harijans taken—temple entry, use of public facilities, scholarships, an increase in their numbers in government service and police, etc.

● Attention given to primary, technical and higher education and to public health and sanitation.

● Encouragement given to khadi through subsidies and other measures.

● Prison reforms undertaken.

● Encouragement given to indigenous enterprises.

● Efforts taken to develop planning through National Planning Committee set up under Congress president Subhash Bose in 1938.