Yazar: Karen Coelho

L.C. Jain-Bom 13 December 1925. Joined the Quit India movement during the freedom struggle, was invited by the Central Relief Committee of All-India Congress Committee to look after the post-partition refugee camps; later joined Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya in founding the Indian Cooperative Union (ICU) to build rural cooperatives and revive the traditional handicrafts and handlooms of India. Starting as a village cooperative organiser in 1948, was later elected General Secretary of ICU. He was actively involved with major endeavours of ICU: building of the Faridabad industrial township by refugees on self-help basis, development of the Central Cottage Industries Emporium and the setting up of the first Super Bazaar. Currently, he is Chairman of Industrial Development Services, a techno-economic consultancy organisation, and of the Institute of Social Change and Development, an ICSSR-sponsored institute for the north-east region. He is co-author of Grass Without Roots, Rural Development under Government Auspices.