ɪɴᴅɪᴀ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ꜱᴍᴀʀᴛ ᴠɪʟʟᴀɢᴇꜱ ɴᴏᴛ ꜱᴍᴀʀᴛ ᴄɪᴛɪᴇꜱ.

CURRENT STATE OF INDIAN VILLAGES 

There are more than 600,000 villages in India without latest sources villages called backward area of the country. There  is no proper water supply, lack of  public transportation  no sanitation, no electricity and not good connectivity with urban areas. It means villages are not getting there basic needs in our country after 70years of independence .

* villages themselves are a powerhouse of large pool of man power. About 600 million people of India live in villages and at least half of them are below 25years of age they will become future of India without education and wealth.

A programme on “Nutrition Smart Village” will be initiated to strengthen the Poshan Abhiyan.

• It will be part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, to commemorate the 75th year of Independence of India.

Key Points

• About:
  
  • The initiative is in line with the Prime Minister's call to adopt and transform 75 villages.
  • A total of 75 villages will be adopted by All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) centres and Indian Council of Agricultural Research -Central Institute for Women in Agriculture (ICAR-CIWA).
• Objective:
  
  • To promote nutritional awareness, education and behavioural change in rural areas involving farm women and school children.
  • Harnessing traditional knowledge through the local recipe to overcome malnutrition.
  • Implementing nutrition-sensitive agriculture through homestead agriculture and Nutri-garden
  • According to the data from the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) (2019-2021) from the 22 states surveyed so far, only 9 showed a decline in the number of stunted children, 10 in wasted children and six in underweight children.
  • Studies reveal that India loses up to 4% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and up to 8% of its productivity due to child malnutrition.

• Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) is a system of rural local self-government in India.
• Local Self Government is the management of local affairs by such local bodies who have been elected by the local people.
  

* it is very necessary to develop our country developed. New generation of workers should be healthy and educated. In the villages there should be connected to urban areas with good roads and network communication. 

Things that will make villages smart   

* Good governance. 

* Health and education.

*sanitation, sustainable development.

*safety and security.

*Housing for poor people.

CAUSES :

*migration is also unidirectional as  they continue to live in cities in the landing better job. 

*in the cities uncontrolled migration adds to pollution, traffic problems, crime and infrastructure.

69% of Indian population lives in villages many without basic amenities such as roads, transportation, water, health, communication etc.... 

Number of villages 5.98 lakh 

IMPORTANT INDIAN SOCIOLOGISTS ON VILLAGES

• M N SRINIVAS – villages were never self-sufficient; had been involved in various kinds of economic, social and political relationships at the regional level.
• ANDRE BETEILLE – village was a session unit is nearly a stereotype. He studied Sripuram, a village in Tanjore. He said villages was not only caste conscious but also class and gender conscious.
• A R DESAI – Indian village is isolated, at least in economic terms. Applied Marxist perspective to rural sociology.
• DIPANKAR GUPTA – agriculture is no longer the mainstay of rural economy and caste no longer only 
•  determinant of social status.
  
• RELEVANCE OF VILLAGE STUDIES
• • Contested the dominant stereotype of Indian villages.
  • Alternative to book-view constructed by indologists and orientalists from Hindu scriptures.
  • Established that village is not a homogeneous entity and has a complex structure of social relations.
  • Primary focus of the studies was on the social and cultural life of the village people.
  • Gave an understanding of the political and economic life in rural society.
  • Village life is also viewed as essentially a religious life.
  • Village studies gave us concepts like sanskritization, dominant caste, segmental structures, harmonic and disharmonic systems, etc

   

Things to done to develop the villages 

* farmers should be made remunerative occupation with guidance and mentorship farmers should be trained by officers.

* giving subsidies to the farmers to develop the crops and government  should bring the schemes like crop insurance, soil health card. 

* India craft thrive in villages especially making with handicrafts, handlooms, like pottery, woodcrafts, papercraft. 

* villages are lowest level of 

 decentralisation   so that every one should have equal right to participate in decision making every one should be equally  treated which maintains social stability

• Panchayati Raj Institution (PRI) is a system of rural local self-government in India.
• Local Self Government is the management of local affairs by such local bodies who have been elected by the local people.
• PRI was constitutionalized through the 73^rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992 to build democracy at the grass roots level and was entrusted with the task of rural development in the country.

Example :

Punsari is the first smart village in himath nagar near sabarkantha district, thus many villages are converted in to smart villages through "SANSAD ADHARSH GRAM YOJANA " launched in 2014 required each member of the parliament to adopt a village and turn in to smart village.

CONCLUSION :

Recently the state chief secretary to encourage government development be focus on smaller population areas to create smart villages. 

 WITHOUT  MAKING  VILLAGES SMART ,

NATION CANNOT BECOME DEVELOPED ...

First picture which is my favorite spot catching sunrise, sunset .

Warm regards, 

𝓚𝓪𝓵𝓪𝓵𝓲 𝓼𝓪𝓲 𝓻𝓪𝓶 𝓰𝓸𝓾𝓭.