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If I hear the name Village the first thing came to my mind calm surrounding, greenery everywhere, non polluted air, the streams and rivers filled with clean and pure water, the people are simple, innocent and they love and share with one another and live like one big family. In the villages things are quite different from what they are in cities. The technology are developing now a days the life is more easier than before but in villages they were undergone with our traditional and make their works more complicated. On otherside villages were very far from cities that's why they didn't get any government allowances and even government didn't consider their own day to day needs and facilities too. The didn't have enough hospitals, educational centers, Electricity and etc., In our olden days they were lead their happy life with what they have in their agricultural fields and surroundings but now a days the urban community were polluted land, air, water and etc with their technologies for their peaceful life which causes scarcity of rainfall, natural resourcesand etc., at last the people in rural were end up with poverty and famine. The main focus of the government is only on urban and metropolitan communities they provide a well deserved lifestyle. This should be change because the villages are main roots of our natural resources.

Sreedhar V
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Arsha Chandran B
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Villages are always praised for its closeness with nature, quiet life, hospitable people and its fresh air and other resources. But in reality, these glorifying words are shackles forcing them to get satisfied with the basic facilities currently being received. Then, we urgently need to change the concept of the term basic needs from just food and shelter to sanitation, education, healthcare and much more. Villages have always suffered from illiteracy, unemployment, lack of opportunities, lack of school and hospital infrastructure and other services. All these issues are not unknown to the world but still are left unattended or progressed only in a very slow pace. Self help may contribute largely to overcome this. Women's self help groups have already been started in some parts of the country. Apart from this, all the skilled inhabitants of the village could engage in self help. Children who attain eduction from the single school in the village or from the nearby city school often migrate to cities in search of jobs, good salary and better opportunities. These inhabitants who are already aware of villager's needs and priorities must be sustained here through startups and then we can witness them paving the first stone to development.

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India is continuously trying to boost the rural economy. But in its effort to boost the rural economy, India is facing many issues, which slows down the economic growth. The issues are really important and need to be solved.

Here is a list of key issues that must be solved in order to grow the rural economy

Poverty

Connectivity

Electricity and water supplies

Education/Literacy

Employment

Migration to urban areas

Land Reforms

There are a few other issues that have a negative impact on rural development. The Government of India is now focused on developing rural areas and creating more opportunities. They have introduced various schemes like Deen Dayal Upadhyay Grameen Kaushal Yojna, Heritage Development and Augmentation Yojna (HRIDAY), Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), and many more.

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Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana
The Mission aims at creating efficient and effective institutional platforms of the rural poor enabling them to increase household income through sustainable livelihood enhancements and improved access to financial services.
Mission Antyodaya
Mission Antyodaya is a convergence framework for measurable effective outcomes on parameters that transform lives and livelihoods.
National Rurban Mission (NRuM)
The objective of the National Rurban Mission (NRuM) is to stimulate local economic development, enhance basic services, and create well planned Rurban clusters.
National Social Assistance Programme
National Social Assistance Programme is a social security and welfare programme to provide support to aged persons, widows, disabled persons and bereaved families on death of primary bread winner, belonging to below poverty line households.
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin)
To provide pucca house to all who are houseless and living in dilapidated houses in rural areas by 2022.
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana launched  to provide all-weather access to unconnected habitations.
Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship
District administration in underdeveloped, isolated and remote areas of the country to improve programme delivery and interface with the marginalized sections of the population, as well as developing a cadre of committed and competent development leaders and facilitators, who are available as a resource for rural development over the long term.
Rural Self Employment Training Institutes
With the aim of mitigating the unemployment problem among the youth, a new initiative was tried jointly by Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Educational Trust, Syndicate Bank and Canara Bank in 1982 which was the setting up of the “RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND SELF EMPLOYMENT TRAINING INSTITUTE” with its acronym RUDSETI near Dharmasthala in Karnataka. Several centers of the RUDSETI are already operating successfully now. Since the RUDSETI has today become a replicable model, the MoRD proposes to support establishment of one RUDSETI type of institution in each district of the country to tap the rural BPL youth from the rural hinterland.
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
The goal is to develop three Adarsh Grams by March 2019, of which one would be achieved by 2016. Thereafter, five such Adarsh Grams (one per year) will be selected and developed by 2024.

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A village is a place where we have small houses together. It is moreover like a very calm and quiet place with less noise and sound. Not much developed place. Basic facilities like roads, pipelines, communication facilities etc are restricted to an extend.
In a village we can see people dressed in their custom costumes. People in villages are mostly engaged in agriculture, farming and grazing practices. They have only very little knowledge about the modern world and technologies but are much more aware of the inherited knowledge about the nature. People in villages are deprived of many facilities that urban region's people enjoy. This leads to underdevelopment and poverty in at least some villages or households.
In a village we can see castles grazing all around, can hear the chipping of birds, the whole area will be prosperous with trees and plants. We can also see stone benches where people can rest, hand pumps for pumping water,  mud paved roads. Less or no vehicles mostly people walk or use traditional methods of transportation like bullock carts. People in the villages are known for their simplicity and willingness to help each other.

AUCHITHYA SAJAN
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Villages are smaller than a town, where a group of people reside in community whose livelihood is predominantly based on farming and livestock management. Since the community consists of less population, the scope of availability of services such as hospitals, educational institutes and etc. are comparatively less. However we need to accept the fact that the root of urban is rural villages. In a optimistic perspective this can be seen as the scope to concentrate more efficiently for less population, may it be in providing education, may it be in making availability of agro services and etc. Eventually this results in forming a smart village which leads for a smart town and then a smart city. Another thing that widely observed in rural people is acceptability. They try out new technologies without hesitation. The initiation of new things are flawless when compared to urban areas. The only concern is that they are not made aware of it. Romanticizing rural culture and agriculture practices is never going to pave a path for their development.

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Villages are the roots of a country!
In general, villages are shown as a place filled with green space, clear water running through the fields, cattle, a lot of children playing joyfully, calm, and a serene environment.
But, it's not the truth! All these characteristics said about a village were present so many years ago. Now, villages are addressed as rural surroundings and a place where wastes from the urban areas are dumped continuously. Some of the main issues faced in these villages include poverty, a lack of basic resources, and very little accessibility to amenities. All these issues lead to the migration of rural people to the urban areas in search of a better life.
During my B. Tech, as part of my NCC activity, we visited a village that was stricken by poverty and drought. Children in the village had a huge desire to learn and educate themselves but, there was no school in the village. Many children were anemic due to a lack of a balanced diet. Lack of hospitals, clean water, electricity and many more problems were there which needed to be addressed in the village.

MIRA SHIVANI S
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