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.
