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A
PROJECT PROFILE
Cow
Oriented Integrated Village Development Project
We
are now entering a new millennium. We in India after
Independence adopted mixed economic policy and planned
development. At this juncture we should review and evaluate our
approach to development. On the basis of this appraisal we should,
if necessary amend the approach and strategies for development.
It is true that with the introduction of high yielding hybrid seeds, exotic breeds, irrigation, chemical fertilisers,
insecticides,
pesticides, tractorization,i.e. mechanisation
of our agriculture, has led to fantastic rise in agricultural
and milk production. Organised market system and support price
policy have benefited the progressive farmers. It is also true that
big dams, hydel and thermal power projects, big industries,
motorised transport system etc. have led to higher
industrial production and higher economic growth. We are now
amongst the ten Industrialised Nations. A country which was the most
exploited poorest
country of the World is now the member of the Nuclear
Club.
But
in spite of this fantastic development we are still one of the
poorest countries of the world. Our soil has lost almost fifty
percent of its fertility in Green Revolution zone. Soil health is
deteriorating fast and pollution level has reached to a dangerous
point. Ecological balance is highly disturbed. Unscientific flood
irrigation is increasing and our fertile land is converting into
wasteland. The centralised
and mechanised consumer goods industries have destroyed most of our
village industries. Millions of our village craftsmen and artisans
have lost their jobs. Introduction of threshers, tractors, power
tillers, harvesters, electrical motor pumps etc. are making bullocks
redundant. Slaughter of cattle has become a big export oriented
foreign exchange earning industry.
The gap between rich and the poor and between cities and the
villages is widening day by day. The disparity in income and wealth
has reached to a critical point which has resulted in hatred,
mindless violence and terrorism.
Now
people all over the world have
started realising that the present strategy and approach to development
is against the very basic human values like fraternity,
equality and freedom.
High energy consuming capital
intensive Industrial Model of development is highly exploitative
where individual exploits the society and a group of
people exploits the natural resources without caring for
their replenishment. Such a exploitative model of development may
ultimately lead to Mass destruction and annihilation of human race.
To
save humanity from this catastrophe we are submitting this project
profile . This may serve as a pilot project to evolve an alternative
Model of Development.
The object of this Project is
to make a village and a group of villages self reliant in basic
necessities of life such as food, clothing, housing, health
,education and recreation. The village community should become a
community of ‘prosumers i.e.
the consumer should become a producer and producer
should become a consumer also. The present trend of “
production for Markets ”should be reversed to “ production for
local consumption
first and surplus for Markets ”. The ultimate aim of this Project
is Gram Swarajya.
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