Our Villages-challenges and opportunities

                           Our Villages-challenges and opportunities

Our villages are our first world and our motherland. For me without a second thought my village is my first love among the places in world. And for India who claims that her soul lies in her villages, the villages become all more important. But when we throw a look on our villages we find that we are still lagging in development and the villages of our country still give the look of 80s and 90s even in 2012. Barring the invasion of a few technological tools i.e. TVs and Mobile phones, the villages are still a centre of minimum activities of creativity. Thanks to our poor leaders who are bankrupt with ideas and activities.

The Youth

Our villages are optimum source of quality human resources. But our young people are still a liability in their youth and the rush of blood in their veins is still used to nourish the petty needs of daily life. Worse for those who are led by anti-social elements and parasites disguised in form of leaders. Obviously our youth have a gloomy present and with all certainty have uncertain future.

The Education System

 India has always boasted of its education system in all ages of its civilization. And Indians love to flaunt their depth of knowledge and finesse of understanding. But the schools-the seat of learning still don’t have infrastructure to facilitate learning. The curriculum of Govt. schools and Boards had become obsolete long ago but still they are being used. There seems to be no goal. It seems you don’t have to reach any where.

The Health Care

Health is real wealth- this we have been made to memorize since childhood. But we have never cared to give a thought over it. Still villages don’t have a community health centre. Worse those villages which had a health-care centre today lies in shattered state and in condition of absolute apathy. The doctors of villages are medicine shopkeepers and self-proclaimed Doctors. So for villages bad health is way to hell.

Sanitation

It is said cleanliness is next to godliness. But Proper drainage system is invisible in villages of twenty-first century. Even villagers are ignorant from the benefits of cleanliness and neatness.

Energy and power

Even today hundreds of year after electricity was discovered as a source of energy, the villages still sleep in darkness. “Lantern age” does not seem to end.

Point to ponder

Villages provide a homogeneous distribution of population facilitating basic natural resources like pure air, drinking water and land to be shared over a large geographical landscape. Villages equipped with basic and modern facilities will prove to be cradle of healthy and peaceful home of generations to come. I believe they are the only solution to the ever increasing population. Isn't it  wise to revive our villages in new avatar? 

             

"Human life is  time-travel for beautiful experiences" says Amit