Working under Congress (jul 1, 1937 – oct 12, 1939)
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- eased curbs on civil liberties
- restriction on press lifted
- political prisoners and revolutionaries released
- lifter ban from illegal organizations, books, and journals
- restoration of pension of officials involved in CDM
- Social Reforms were taken - Harijans, public health and sanitation, prison reforms, encouraged indigenous enterprises
- The National Planning Committee was established in India in 1938 by Congress President and Indian National Army supreme leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, and later on by Jawaharlal Nehru.
- The formation of a fifteen-member National Planning Committee followed, with the Committee emphasizing in a memorandum that national independence is an indispensable main condition for taking all steps that may be found necessary for carrying out the plan in all of its various elements
- Extra-Parliamentary mass activities like mass literacy campaign, setting up congress police stations and panchayats, Congress Grievance Committees, states peoples movement
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