Road development for rural urban connectivity
Road indicates the might of the
nation. It represents power, prosperity and culture. It symbolizes accessibility and
connectivity.
Accessibility refers to the ability to make use of opportunities
embodied in goods, services, activities and destinations.
In 21st century, internet has brought people of
world closer to each other than before and so social inclusion has became more
important. For this, connectivity plays an important role.
When we think about urban area, a rosy picture about immense
opportunities and facilities come to our mind. We imagine good educational and health institutes,
economical prosperity and social equality.
But, what about rural areas? When we think about rural area,
agriculture, lack of education, social inequalities and injustice and disguised
employment are few of the things.
As a result of this disparity, people migrate from villages
to towns with the hope of better life and better future, but it burdens the
already burdened infrastructure of urban area.
See the irony, 60% of Indian population living in villages
are contributing to only 6% of GDP. It clearly indicates that people who feed
entire nation remains malnourished and have no access to knowledge. If there is
poor access to basic information the household will be unaware of ideas and
technology that might help them to lift their level of living; and if there is
poor access to education, children will probably share the limitations in the
future, confronting their parents today.When there is drought or any natural
calamity,aid doesn’t reach in time as a result many people suffer from the loss
of their loved ones and their wealth.
Due to lack of equal opportunities economic and social
differences are widening and hampering the growth of the country.
So, building roads are necessary as building roads will
build the future of the nation.
With
the help of connectivity, many small workshops like printing, wielding can be shifted to rural areas.
Road improve supply chain and promote economic growth. From
the rough, mountainous terrain of Himachal Pradesh to the dry, rugged landscape
of Rajasthan, new roads are revitalizing the rural economy, raising incomes,
and improving the quality of rural life. Farmers now find it easier to take
their produce to market in time, school enrollment is on the rise, and
families' access to health care has improved. Road development has brought
paradigm shift in the way rural areas are designed, monitored and built.
The government of India
invest huge amount with the help of world bank on project like pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana to
substantially expand rural road connectivity
But building road is a huge infrastructural activity which
requires finance and manpower.since government has to allocate the money for
other programmes and schemes and a result they aren’t able to provide enough
finance for road development.
To overcome this lacunae, Government should take extensive
survey to find out rural areas which have potential to undertake diverse economic activities. New rural roads will be needed to serve communities in more remote and
difficult terrain requiring special attention to planning and implementation.
As late mohammad ali said,Service to others is
the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
As a proud and nationalist Indian, it is our responsibility
to pay our taxes on time, ask for the bill and pay sales tax.
We should never ever evade tax giving pretext to our
political and bureaucratic system being corrupt. If we think so, then we must
use right to information and other legitimate tools to dug out all the cases
related to corruption and put the culprit behind the bars.
People may think connecting each and every villages and city
by all weather road is impossible
but let me remind you people,impossible is not a
fact it is a opinion.
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