Rapid urbanisation has created mass exodus of educated youth from rural area to megatowns causing great damage to agricuture and small industries in villages and small towns.
Nearly 83 million people live in rural India and are majorly engaged in agriculture-related businesses.Transfer of educated people from villages to cities have resulted in deserted towns and unattended agricultural lands or no technology inputs in traditional methods.
In Maharashtra, growth of agro-based industries and cooperatives gave sustainability to rural area. But majority of youth with professional training in IT, Management and engineering sectors opted to live in large cities which provided them high salaried jobs and comfortable life with modern amenities of shopping, food and amusement.
With the global revolution in information technology and communication systems, multinational corporations spread its tentacles to grab cream of the society for their business operations and capturing the large customer base in India.
Corona gave a strong antidote to this process and increased health risk for living in megatowns and crowded multistoried offices.
This is an opportunity to create jobs in rural area and retain the professional brain power for sustainable growth of small industries and increase standard of living for those dependent on agriculture.
Distance education and work from home has become now easy with mobile and computer availability and may provide opportunities of working in big corporates by staying in rural area.
Dnyandeep Foundation wishes to develop a large distributed network of professionals from megacities and foreign countries and link them with rural youth and women who can learn and earn. This will help in promotion of agricultural entrepreneurs. The foundation will provide online services in multiple regional languages to break the language barrier, getting new customers to experience the digital platform from household working women to schools..
If all actively participate in this ambitious program, rural areas could potentially become the growth engines for India and we can achieve sustainable eco-friendly growth of rural and semi-urban sector
with uniform strength over entire country and not in concentrated spots of few smart cities as planned for future.
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