Developing Rural India: Inputs Sought

Union Budget 2016 took its core strategy from your collective recommendations in this circle and the focus has been put on infrastructure, roads and irrigation, a lot of which will help rural India.

Below are the key issues of Rural India as identified by you in 2015. We would like to seek your inputs on simple yet specific solutions that will help address some of these issues.

We look forward to your inputs!

Issues in Rural India as outlined collectively by Citizens

1. There are not enough employment opportunities in rural India
2. Lack of quality educational institutes
3. The number of hospitals in rural India are extremely limited
4. There is a lot of abuse, harrassment against women in villages and most of it is unreported
5. Villagers have to travel long distances to buy medicines
6. Farmers are not aware of the latest agricultural techniques to improve yields
7. Farmer suicide is a major issue in villages
8. Natural disasters cause havoc in many villages almost every year
9. Proper infrastructure is still lacking in most of the villages
10. Public transport facilities are almost non-existent in rural India
11. Communication systems like mobile network, internet in many villages is non-existent or weak
12. Rural workers, artisans, small entrepreneurs are not able to sell their products effectively
13. Many villages still do not have electricity
14. Availability of clean drinking water is scarce
15. Lack of proper irrigation facilities
16. There is lack of functioning toilets (both at homes and public) in villages
17. A large amount of food grains produced go to waste every year
18. There are not enough banks in villages
19. Loans provided to farmers attract a steep interest
20. Most corporates do not want to invest in rural India. more