416 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
As regards the economic question
(1) “the Party will undertake to establish Land Mortage Banks, agriculturist producers’, co-operative societies and marketing societies with a view to improving the productivity of agriculture.
(2) “The Party thinks that fragmentation of holdings which in the opinion of the party is a severe handicap in the way of the application of capital and improved methods of cultivation to agriculture and is therefore a direct cause of the poverty of the agriculturists.
Pressure of Population
“The Party, however believes that the fragmentation of holdings and the consequent poverty of the agriculturists are mainly due to the pressure of population on land, and unless the pressure is relieved by draining off the excess population subsisting on land, fragmentation will continue, and the condition of the agriculturists will remain as poverty-stricken as its is today. In the opinion of the party the principal means of helping the agriculturists and making agriculture more productive consists in the industrialisation of the Province. The party will, therefore, endeavour to rehabilitate old industries and promote such new industries as the natural resources of the Provinces will permit.
(3) “To raise the efficiency and the productive capacity of the people the Party will endeavour to undertake an extensive programme of technical education.
(4) “The Party accepts the principle of State Management and State Ownership of industry whenever it may become necessary in the interest of the people.
(5) “The Party willl endeavour to remove all obstacles to free and full life and to alter, amend or abolish any economic system which is unjust to any class or section of the people.
(6) “The Party will undertake legislation to protect agriculture tenants from the exaction and evictions by the landlords in general and in particular the tenants under (a) the Khoti System, and (b) the Talukadari System.