The 'Bal Charkha Sangh', a children's organisation that promoted spinning and the use of khadi, was founded in 1930 by:

The "Bal Charkha Sangh" was founded in 1930 by the young Indira Gandhi (then Indira Nehru), to involve children in the national movement by promoting spinning on the charkha and the use of khadi.

Background:

• In 1930, the Civil Disobedience Movement was at its height, and Gandhi's programme of khadi and the boycott of foreign cloth spread across the country.
• Indira, then about 12 years old, was eager to take part in the struggle, but was too young to join the Congress.
• She organised children to spin yarn on the charkha and to wear khadi, as a contribution to the swadeshi cause.

The "Vanar Sena":

• Indira Gandhi also organised the "Vanar Sena" (monkey brigade), a group of children who helped the Congress during the Civil Disobedience Movement.
• The children carried messages, made flags, cooked food for the volunteers, and helped in other small ways.

Indira Gandhi's early life:

• She was born on 19 November 1917 at Anand Bhawan, Allahabad, the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru and Kamala Nehru.
• She grew up in a home that was a centre of the freedom movement.
• She studied at Santiniketan (Visva-Bharati) and at Somerville College, Oxford.
• Her father's letters to her from jail were published as books.
• She married Feroze Gandhi in 1942, and was imprisoned during the Quit India Movement.

Later career:

• She became the President of the Congress (1959), the Minister of Information and Broadcasting (1964), and the first woman Prime Minister of India (1966).
• She was the Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 until her assassination on 31 October 1984.
• She was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1971.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Nehru and Aruna Asaf Ali were women leaders of the national movement, but they did not found the Bal Charkha Sangh.