Cottage industries do not consists of foreign element in the pattern of our country. In fact, they are the essential part of it. They are in no way opposed to the large scale industies. On the contrary, they serve to supplement them. In these industries a solution may be found to some of the glaring evils of our national economy. Cottage industries are those which are pursued in the homes and cottage of the people. They thrive in a home by the members of the family providing capital and labour. In cottage industries no machinery is employed. They mean small scale industries which require no large capital outlay, complicated machinery or big organisation. Though operated by hands, these industries permit the use of a limited amount of power and machinery. Thus cottage industries combine simplicity with beauty, though the products are not always cheap. Only a dogmatist can advocate the exclusive clims of either cottage or large scale industries. A modern country which aspires to a prosperous existence cannot affort to do without large scale industries at least in some specified fields. In certain industries, the use of small scale methods is ruled out. In mining, in ship building, in manufacture of locomotives rolling stock, in armament industries, it is absolutely essetial to have large scale organisation. But our industrial development, at the same time, should not take place at the expensee of small scale industries, the loss of which will be entirely unfortunate. The small scale workers produce fine products out of their primitive instruments.