Chandra Poojary M This paper considers the erstwhile policies of the central and state governments with regard to the promotion of small-scale industries. The failures of these promotional programmes has indeed given a fillip to the liberalisation slogan. That, all the more, is the reason why we should go back on all that and see what was projected and what went wrong. This paper outlines the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the plan for the promotion of small-scale industries as it was taken up in the district of Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka.
