India Needs Smart Villages More Than Smart Cities for Better Tomorrow

Abstract

A total of 70% population of India lives in villages and the youth belongs to this segment are passing through a dramatic psychological turmoil. The invasion of bedroom from the skies in the form of television and the advancement in telephony through internet has given them minded the dreams that were not thinkable few years ago. The concept of 100 smart cities is definitely an eye catcher and welcome move by the Prime Minister and should be pursued in the right earnest. Smart villages’ concept is engaged in efforts to combat the real barriers to energy access in villages, particularly in developing countries with technological, financial and educational methodology. Villages are the small parts of this chain (country) and for the strengths of chain we have to work on its weak and small parts. Now we can say India needs Smart villages more than Smart Cities for better tomorrow.