The 'Gandhi Plan' was formulated by Sriman Narayan in 1944. This was one of several plans formulated during the independence movement period, alongside the Bombay Plan (by industrialists), People's Plan (by M.N. Roy), and the Sarvodaya Plan (by Jayaprakash Narayan). Sriman Narayan's Gandhi Plan emphasized Gandhian principles of decentralized development and village industries.