Indian Villages-Context, Issues, Options and Strategies for Rational Development (original) (raw)
2023, Published as part of the book titled- Making Villages Great Places to Live and Work
Villages remain critical and relevant for orderly, rational and realistic development of any urban areas in general and nation as a whole in particular. Housing large population; producing raw material for the industry to process; providing food, dairy products and vegetables essential for human living; housing large manpower ; offering largest market for consumption and production; having close proximity with nature; housing compact development and numerically being large in numbers, villages remain critical and valuable for eradicating poverty, generating employment, minimizing problems of cities/towns and launching nation on the path of fast trajectory of growth and development. Despite holding distinct advantages on the canvass of national development, still villages find little room in the agenda defined for promoting planned development of human settlements and largely remain marginalized in the options put in place for planned development. There is tendency to forget that villages are settlements, housing human beings and today’s village are going to be towns of tomorrow, so accordingly they need to be rationally planned, developed and managed by equipping with all basic amenities and services essential for human living. Villages need respect, support and attention for empowerment and development
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