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Friday, August 26, 2016

Smart Villages

India is focusing on creating 100 smart cities. Gujarat want to setup 300 self-reliant smart villages. Each state is moving towards setting a smart village as pilot.

70% of India is rural population and dependent on agriculture. They need infrastructure to be developed but right now taxes they pay is less compared to urban population. We need more revenue generation avenues in this side of India which can bring in more money into spend for uplifting the villages

For the villages Indian Govt. is focusing on few very good schemes that have been missing since independence to help
  • The farmers not fall into debt trap by providing crop insurance. 
  • For them to get affordable healthcare through affordable health insurance. 
  • For them to benefit of subsidy to open bank accounts and the cash to get deposited directly into their bank account.
  • Electrification plans to provide 24x7 electricity.
As part of various development activities, we are also rapidly cutting down green cover, trees, forests.
  • Enough of afforestation is not being done
  • Enough of rain water storage is not being done
  • Enough of water for 3-4 crops a year for agricultural villages is not being done
I might be wrong in few things, but key is enough sustainable villages are not being developed.

India to be prosperous and super power, our agriculture and village focus is a must.

Transforming all our villages and remote places to be self-sustaining and revenue generating smart villages is an absolute must.

Government and Agriculture centers have enough information and the know-how to transform into smart villages.

It needs to be revolution and road map to transform India into smart villages interconnected, for trade to flourish and keep inflation under check

Few Pioneers are needed who should reverse migrate to villages and make them living heaven amidst healthy pollution free environments. Energy we corporate put in rat race or survive the fires of corporate rat race and get stress related ailments can be easily overcome, if we transform few of the villages into smart villages and bring livelihood to villages and make them into living heavens.

Water - Crops - Standard of Living is interlinked. 
  • Better water year round leads to more crops per year
  • More crops per year leads to more revenue at hand
  • More revenue at hand and few innovative ideas of more revenue generation leads to more jobs and more income to households
  • Healthy eco-friendly environment land ancient living techniques leads to better health
  • More income leads to better education
  • Better education and better revenue generation avenues leads to employment to all
  • Standard of living automatically increases
  • More money will accumulate on taxes to government
  • More money to spend for people leading to flourishing country

There are good number of examples where villagers have taken the issue into their hands and transformed their villages from drought hit places to 'sasyasyamalam' or flourishing with crops year round. With this inspiration, I am creating this blog where we can chalk out ideas and go to governments/private individuals/corporate to bring prosperity to India

We should be able to use our corporate project management and engineering degree to practical use for social cause and social innovation to transform our Indian villages to Smart Villages connected to rest of the world (yeah even connected world in terms of IoT and digital india) help other developing countries around the world to follow the path and vision of our visionary and honorary PM of India.

What all India and Indians can do - sky is the limit


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