Mahatma Gandhi set up the Sevagram Ashram, near Wardha in Maharashtra, in:

Mahatma Gandhi set up the Sevagram Ashram, near Wardha in present-day Maharashtra, in 1936.

About the Sevagram Ashram:

• After the Dandi March (1930), Gandhi had vowed not to return to the Sabarmati Ashram until India became independent.
• In 1934, he moved to Wardha, in the central part of India, at the invitation of the industrialist and his close associate Jamnalal Bajaj.
• In April 1936, he settled in the village of Segaon, about 8 km from Wardha, on land given by Jamnalal Bajaj.
• Gandhi renamed the village "Sevagram" ("village of service"), as there was another village called Segaon, which caused confusion in postal deliveries.
• He lived there for most of the remaining years of his life.

Life at Sevagram:

• Gandhi chose a simple village, to set an example of village-based living and constructive work.
• The huts were built of local materials (mud, bamboo and wood) at a low cost.
• The ashram became the centre of Gandhi's constructive programme: khadi, village industries, basic education (Nai Talim), sanitation, the removal of untouchability, and communal harmony.
• Important decisions of the national movement, including the Quit India resolution, were discussed there; the Congress Working Committee met at Wardha.
• Famous visitors included Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, Maulana Azad and many foreign visitors.

Important buildings:

• "Adi Niwas": the first hut, where Gandhi stayed at first.
• "Bapu Kuti": Gandhi's hut.
• "Ba Kuti": Kasturba Gandhi's hut.

Nai Talim (Basic Education):

Gandhi's scheme of education through productive work, known as the Wardha Scheme of Basic Education, was adopted at a conference at Wardha in 1937.

Vinoba Bhave's ashram:

Vinoba Bhave's Paramdham Ashram is at Paunar, also near Wardha.

Why not the other options?

• ✗1915 was the year of Gandhi's first ashram in India.
• ✗1930 was the year of the Dandi March.
• ✗1942 was the year of the Quit India Movement.