Nilokheri Experiment

The programme was originally started to rehabilitate 7000 displaced persons from Pakistan and later integrated with the 100 surrounding villages into what came to be a rural cum urban township. It was built around the vocational training centre that was transferred from Kurukshetra, in July, 1948 to the 1100 acres of swampy land on the Delhi-Ambala highway. The central figure of this project was shri S.K. Dey, later Union minister of Commuinity Development and cooperatives upto 1965. The scheme called "Mazdoor Manzil" aimed at self-sufficiency forthe rural-cum-urban township in all the essential requirements of like. The colony had school, an agricultural farm, polytechnic training centre, dairy, poultry farm, piggery farm, horticulture garden, printing press, garment factory, engineering workshop, soap factory, etc.