At present there are 20 Swadeshi Regional Centres and more than 100 Swadeshi Rural Development Centres situated at different parts of the State for giving coordination, technical and allied support to the common people in rural development activities. In short, Swadeshi has become the symbol of self-reliance and the people of Kerala by and large consider the Swadeshi Movement as an alternative to globalisation. The Swadeshi Movement is very successful in developing an attitude among the people to produce whatever products that they can produce at the village level and distributing it at the village level itself thereby controlling the drain of resources from the villages to the hands of the multi-nationals and also creating employment to hundreds of common people in each and every Panchayats of Kerala. |