SMART VILLAGE FACILITIES AND GROWTH IN PRESENT INDIAN SCENARIO (original) (raw)

SMART VILLAGES & SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION

A ‘Smart Village’ will provide long-term social, economic, and environmental welfare activity for village community, which will enable and empower enhanced participation in local governance processes, promote entrepreneurship and build more resilient communities. At the same time, a ‘Smart Village’ will ensure proper sanitation facility, good education, better infrastructure, clean drinking water, health facilities, environment protection, resource use efficiency, waste management, renewable energy etc. There is an urgent need for designing and developing ‘Smart Village’, which are independent in providing the services and employment and yet well connected to the rest of the world. The Smart Village concept will be based on the local conditions, infrastructure, available resources in rural area and local demand as well as potential of export of good to urban areas. The present paper examine motivation behind the concept on ‘Smart Village’ is that the technology should acts as a catalyst for development, enabling education and local business opportunities, improving health and welfare, enhancing democratic engagement and overall enhancement of rural village dwellers. In the Indian context, villages are the heart of the nation. So we can achieve socio economic development of the Nation by enlarging the concept of smart villages on improving pattern

Emerging Trends in Rural Development: Planning for Smart Villages

International Journal of Engineering Technology Science and Research

In the Indian context, villages are the heart of the nation but still it is growing fact that the rural population is suffering more consequences for livelihood as compared to urban areas. The difficulties of livelihood may be forcing rural population to migrate to the urban areas which is one of the major challenge. If situation remains same, urban growth will be unavoidable, as the economic pursuits and aspirations of the population always change and evolve. Village developmental activities and plans were formulated by government in order to mitigate poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, malnutrition in kids, health problem and also to provide basic needs of livelihood. However, due to lack of implementation, many villages are still deprived of drinking water, sanitation facilities, primary health centres, equipped primary schools, electricity, proper road and public transportation system, banks and communication services. All these programs and Policy have met with limited success. The "Smart Village" concept could address these challenges comprehensively. All these programme and policies can converge in smart village development by adding smart solutions. In our study, four case studies have been carried out ofBhorgiri Village,Dhamane Village,Wandre Village and Kelashi Village in Maharashtra, Indiato understand the issues in rural development. Surveys are conducted through Questionnaires, Personal talks, Interviews and Parameters considered such as Health Facilities, Education Facility, Food Security, Participatory Democracy, Productive enterprises, Quality of Life and Environment. Depending on analysis obtained from case studies, Action plan and Expected benefit for villages are done and for smart village development smart programme for Bhorgiri, Dhamane, Wandre and Kelashi Village has been proposed.

SMART VILLAGES – NEED OF EMERGING INDIA

Human society is developing with rapid momentum and achieved various successes for making its livelihood better. The civilization is witness for various changes related to it’s the development through different catalysts like industrial development, green revaluation, science and technology, etc. The present era is augmented on Information and Communication Technology. This technology has proved its potential in various sectors of development in urban and rural landscapes. Urban areas are seems to more inclined to accept and adopt Information and Communication Technology due to advantages of literacy and better infrastructure as compared to rural areas. Due to such suitable situations of urban landscapes good amount of success of this technology is visible in the form of smart cities and better livelihood of residing human beings. But the problems, consequences and opportunities in urban areas are different for effective utilization of Information and Communication Technology for sustainable development of rural masses. The present research article discusses about rural development in developing world for the up-liftment of livelihood of the rural masses and to take a ‘look ahead’ at scientific developments and technologies that might be influential over the next 10 -20 years. The driving motivation behind the concept on “Smart Village” is that the technology should acts as a catalyst for development, enabling education and local business opportunities, improving health and welfare, enhancing democratic engagement and overall enhancement of rural village dwellers. The “Smart Village” concept aims to realize its goal through providing policymakers with insightful, bottom –up analyses of the challenges of village development

Smart Village: A new dynamic to end rural urban gap and move towards sustainable development for all

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation, 2021

Smart rural development is one of the best criteria to achieve Sustainable Development, there are 60,000 villages in India, where the condition of some of the villages are extremely miserable with no access to water, food and employment. With advancement in technology and bringing in green technology India has made few of its villages developed and constructed them as smart village with 100 % energy security, water access, pucca house, internet connectivity, empowering women, installation of RO, better jobs and government schools which have introduced computer learning. With this smart village development it has reduced the migration rate and brough back the people who went to the urban sector in such of better standard of living and employment. Smart village is a private public partnership model. Smart rural village will help to eradicate poverty, hunger, educated everyone, smart villages have seen an up gradation in the number of students. With sustainable development and smart te...

SMART VILLAGE-THE REAL FUTURE OF INDIA

“If the facilities available in the cities are not made available to rural population, the Governments will not have done their duties” Dr.A.P.J.AbdulKalam, Former President of India. Smart Villages is a community based initiativeofSamanvay.Com Welfare Society, primarily aimed to harness the benefits of information technology forth rural folks. The initiative is a community effort to mobilize the collective strengths of people from various streams and integrate it with information technology to provide benefits to the rural community. Gandhian Concept of Ideal Village- SWARAJ. Gandhi Ji said, my idea of Village Swaraj is that it is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others in which dependence is a necessity. Reconstruction of rural India on the basis of the concept of ideal village was Gandhian dream because it embodies great environmental ambiance needed for healthy human living. Theoretically, Gandhian approach to rural development maybe labeled as ‘idealist’. It attaches supreme importance to moral values and gives primacy to moral values over material conditions

DIGITALIZATION OF INDIA: SMART VILLAGES TOWARDS SMART INDIA

The soul of India lives in its villages," declared M. K. Gandhi at the beginning of 20th century. “If the facilities available in the cities are not made available to rural population, the Governments will not have done their duties”-Dr.A.P.J.AbdulKalam, Former President of India. The life in Indian villages is simple and isolated; although they are connected now a day with cell phones and digital television transmission, yet they are cut off from the main stream of urban areas due to poor road connectivity and market for their agricultural commodities. The health, educational and civil facilities are also either absent or not up to the mark. Making such villages as ‘Smart Villages’ is surely a noble program announced by Government”. But no one in villages has seen what exactly, in the Indian conditions, smart village means. The objective of this paper is to discuss about components of Digital India and its nine pillars, adaption of ‘look at Villages’ policy and the smart villages driving towards smart India and the prerequisites of a smart villages cluster.