Rural Development is the right answer to our unemployment problem.!

Our Father of Nation once said, India resides in Villages. His words as ever are not wrong. Our 2011 census recited that nearly 70% of us live in rural areas. Holding the world largest democracy and second largest population, Employment and Economic development is the ultimate need of our country.

Urbanization in India has paced cheerfully from 1947, as a result of it people from villages moved to city for jobs and to carry out a living. It helped India’s economic and social growth but villages and rural India were left far behind and that resulted in migration to cities in huge numbers.

There are certain procedures to transform a human into a human resource. Investments like education, healthcare, infrastructure and so on, should be provided at the right time for better results. This renovates the large population from a burden to an asset.

We should not stay behind to accept that we have created 2 India in one! The rural and urban India are two opposite ends that never meet at any level. India’s economic growth is degrading due to unemployment at a larger scale. From 1983 to 2011 India’s unemployment rate averaged 9%, and it increased thereafter due to heavy rise in population.





A proper solution  to improve the condition of rural India is the need of the hour.

Certains step like ‘Make In India’, ‘Start Up India, Stand Up India’, ‘Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act’ and ‘Skill India’ ‘PradhanMantri Gram Sadak Yojna’ can be very useful. Projects like these with better and adequate application can help rural India in the best way possible.

Make in India, a revolutionary policy of Indian Government can turn out to be a game changer, it creates a policy framework to ease foreign investment, ease of business and management of intellectual property. This helps industries to establish their manufacturing bases in India. Factories set up in rural India will attract people from nearby villages for labour and small wage jobs.





‘Skill development’ is now a priority in India. Emphasis must be on dedicated schemes for capacity building in rural India. Formation of a well-established infrastructure exclusively for skill development must be initiated. Professional Skill and employment-oriented training must be provided to rural youth for creation of skilled labour force. Since the Indian market is growing lucrative with a strengthening buying power of a section of its populace, many foreign companies are keen to invest. This will bring up many industries in various sectors in the nation, which will have a huge demand of skilled labour in coming times.





Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employement Gurantee Act(MGNREGA)
MGNREGA  is one of the worlds largest employement scheme. Rural Employement has increased considerably with schemes and policies like this. MGNREGA has benifitted 182 million people (15% of Indian population). MGNREGA has helped in demoralizing migration besides it also provides social and economical security. It has helped cheerfully in rural devlopement.





Start Up India, Stand Up India-
NO one in the world can doubt the potential Indians have. Start Up India, Stand Up India is ours such program to promote ideas and enterprenuership among Indian youth. Manufacturing units, production units would be set up in rural areas attracting labour force from nearby region on a large scale. It puts direct emphasis on youth enterprenurship on a large scale. This scheme is more focused towards dalits, aadivaasis, people of rural India for betterment.



PradhanMantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY)-
PMGSY has connected remote hamlets to the national highway from where it's smoother ride ahead. The scheme focuses majorily on connecting rural India to national highways thus encouraging small business holders, ease in goods transfer, daily wage workers in transportation. A proper all weather road helped rural area to be connected to urban area hurdlelessly.  represents rare public programme that qualifies as a success in terms of achieving both equity and efficiency objectives.



Unemployment in India has covered a large area because of lack of education at a large scale. The first and formost step to promote employement is education. Improving the condition is rural area will help the masses and will upgrade their social and economical conditions. Education at every level will help demolishing poverty and unemployement from India, thus steps must be taken to promote and provide education to everyone, A 'Sarv Siksha Abhiyan' scheme of Indian Government helps promoting education in rural India.


Rural development aims at improving rural people’s livelihoods in an equitable and sustainable manner, both socially and environmentally, through better access to assets (natural, physical, human, technological and social capital), and services, and control over productive capital (in its financial or economic and political forms) that enable them to improve their livelihoods on a sustainable and equitable basis.

The basic objectives of Rural Development Programmes have been alleviation of poverty and unemployment through creation of basic social and economic infrastructure, provision of training to rural unemployed youth and providing employment to marginal Farmers/Labourers to discourage seasonal and permanent migration to urban areas.

Suggestions

Although concerted efforts have been initiated by the Government of India through several plans and measures to alleviate poverty in rural India, there still remains much more to be done to bring prosperity in the lives of the people in rural areas. At present, technology dissemination is uneven and slow in the rural areas. Good efforts of organizations developing technologies, devices and products for rural areas could not yield high success. Experiences of many countries suggest that technological development fuelled by demand has a higher dissemination rate. However, in India, technology developers for rural areas have been catering to needs (with small improvement), rather than creating demand. There is no industry linkage machinery to create demand-based-technology market for rural communities. Besides, there is also an imbalance between strategies and effective management programmes. Propagation of technology/schemes for rural development is slow and there is a lacking in wider participation of different stakeholders. An ideal approach may therefore, include the government, panchayats, village personals, researchers, industries, NGOs and private companies to not only help in reducing this imbalance, but also to have a multiplier effect on the over all economy.
Thus rural development is the only answer to our unemployment problem.
                 
                                                                               -Harsh Aditya Vatsa