Connecting India -Reviving villages

India even today lives mostly in its villages. But its villages are not the villages of nineteenth century or that of 90s where the villages were emotionally connected with the dwellers of towns and cities.  Today the umbilical cord is broken. Those who are living in cities or towns have very little or no connect with villages at personal level. In old days the successfuls of towns and cities used to groom and motivate the next generation of village . Today we have a lot more successfuls but they are mostly disconnected with their roots. We need to connect them and bind the villages in a team to become  a self sustaining unit of economy , education, governance , culture and sports.  For building and creating  smart ,well connected india we need united villages... teams in villages who are ready to make a distinguishing mark. Villages can prove to be powerhouse of talents and youth power.

Identifying villages-
Our villages need to be identified as an unit of  activities. And they should be adequately groomed to become centre of a host of activities . We need to make them a cradle of talent.

Creating Team -
We need to build and bind the country with thread of unity. For this we need small team of villages who are connected with themselves. To be connected we need to identify goals which a team village will aspire to achieve at various levels.

Connecting India
The very idea is to engage villages in a host of competition ranging from sports to education, culture to science, awareness to spirituality and awareness to spirituality. We need to create an environment where men are really connected in real world ... and at the same time transform our villages in a hub of talent pool with the help of successful peers of that villages.

The various competition will be on continuous basis and may be a year long exercises. All competition will start from gram panchayat level where individual/team will participate.. the journey thus begun will pass through block, district ,state and then on national level.
But at each level the successful team from a particular village will advance.  This mega event should be a annual exercise.

Any person desirous to apply should apply through his /her village or village  of his choice.

On various level of success , the team/individual/villages should be properly awarded and recognized.

If we can really build on this we will be able to create a mega event which will be ever happening. It will be like national Olympics in game, education  , innovation,  and more it will be like a mega festival connecting India ,creating India and  making India.

The participation of young boys and girls in any of such event (of their choice) should be made compulsory and participation should be precondition to appear in Secondary or Higher secondary examination.

The idea is subject of more debate and discussion.

-amit  kr pandey