The Avenue toward Development through Model Village

Great thinkers of the model village like Tagore and Gandhiji always had given importance to self-reliance and integration of village resources. They knew that the read ideal village is not possible to exist, but a complete and continuous effort to make it a model one does really inspire other villages. After 70 years of independence majority of the villages in the country still face serious constrictions in accessing education, primary healthcare facilities, drinking water, power, and roads, credit, information, and market. In spite of continuous efforts made by Government and NGO level hardly, any of them has been implemented successfully in a sustainable manner. In this milieu, adoption of especially the villages in a backward situation through the preparation of Model Village Planning would go a long way to ensuring holistic and integrated development of the villages. Gandhian theme of model village describes the holistic development of a village and holistic development can be achieved through human development following the moral values, self-sufficiency, and self-reliance, poverty reduction, decentralization of power and development with justice rights and freedom. The Model Village includes integrated development of the particular village across manifold areas such as agriculture, health, education, sanitation, environment, livelihoods etc. It keeps the soul of rural India alive while providing its people with quality access to basic amenities and opportunities to enable them to shape their own destiny. Villagers live with unity and discipline without any discrimination of caste, religion, political, class etc. The community adopts modern technology to bring efficiency in production and enhancing economic opportunities. Opportunities are provided to every citizen to live in peace with dignity and security. It includes an integrated development of the particular village across manifold areas such as agriculture, health, education, sanitation, environment, livelihoods etc. It keep the soul of villagers alive while providing its people with quality access to basic amenities and opportunities to enable them to shape their own destiny thus development would be achieved through the people participation in development process and qualitative growth of people choices as well as access towards the basic needs rather implementation of plans which are continuously incorporated through the top-down approach of development process from outside.

Rethinking the Identity of Indian Rurality

Sometimes I suppose that the current Indian poignant inconceivable predominant abysmal contemporary Agrarian Crisis is not the consequences of Indian Economic Liberalization which was commencement in 1990 with the outlook of leading economic development. Notwithstanding, the economic liberalization frowns towards the small and marginal farmers, while, the capitalist farmers grabbed morsel benefit at the era of green revolution. Do you not think that the conceit of Government Policies bestowed the serious agrarian crisis in Indian Agriculture? We so-called social scientists controvert it as the government policy failure. Most of the research studies including one of my research term paper have the consent on the same argument. Maybe, the green revolution provided only capitalist farmers to have a spate of profit in the agricultural sector while the marginal and small farmers were worst affected. You know what, this sort of outlandish and deadly crisis is compensating an eminent noxious and intricate agrarian transition that would evoke predicament in Indian Agriculture. Did you ever notice about, what kind of agrarian transition has been going since last two decades? You may be surprised after having the concise data or report on agrarian transition in India. The youths are renouncing farming activities due to low production, abate of agricultural products and so on. The transition can be interpreted as the declining agricultural dependent population (71 percent in the 1980s to 49 percent in 2015), an increase of labour migration, the introduction of non-farm economy. Maybe villages are developing in terms of the non-farm economy while the migration could be considered as the central component of alternative livelihood but, what would be the future of our agriculture sector? We are going to lose our rural identity i.e. traditional agriculture, which will be vanishing from the Indian rurality for the sake of severe agricultural crisis. 

The Contemporary Statistics of Farmers Suicide

Farmers’ suicides, which have been an eye-catching update for last decades, are the utmost widely discussed sensation. Poignant accounts and intense illustrations in the media have conveyed out the hindrances that lead people to this extreme step and the sensitive and economic shock that surviving family members have to undergo. The rising trends of farmer suicide cases reflect a great disaster in Indian agricultural economy due to the reprehensible and hasty failure of implementation of different agricultural policies whereas the agriculture sector is the second priority of budgeting sector in India followed by defense sector. Most of the studies forthrightly argue that the pressure of indebtedness, crop failure, rising cost of cultivation, simultaneous declining of agriculture input-output ratio, outlandish abate of agricultural product  and adverse impact on economic liberalization are the most precise cause for farmer suicide. The frequencies of suicide which are more prevalent among the small farmers were recorded relatively high in Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka in the year of 2014. the state-specific suicidal cases showed an amalgam panorama of farmers’ suicides that became inferior after creating a surge in 2004 and 2009 were reported as much lower among the male non-farmers in 2011 and 2012 at the National level. The gradual and relative increase of farmers’ suicide case are a serious concern towards public health and livelihood sector among the agricultural dependents. The peasant suicides in India are a recent phenomenon of two decades where Andhra Pradesh too reported a quite high range of suicides. The declining growth rate of agricultural output (3.4 in 1980 to 2.3 in 1990) due to low growth of crop yield created a kind of agrarian crisis. Eventually, the agrarian sector is going through a deep crisis where the farmers suicides are the major issue and debate in social science research.