Reform/Restructure India

Around 70% of India population lives in villages and India comprises of 6 lakh+ villages making it practically impossible for any government to provide facilities to that many dwelling places. The other aspect of the problem is that about 50% of Indian population work/live on agriculture but contribute to only 25% of GDP. The project is aimed to solve these two problems.


Restructure India
What?
Consolidate the 6 lakh odd villages into ~5000 planned small towns. Average population of small town population varies from 100000 to 500000 (unlike 100 or 1000). This will make whole India of ~6000+ towns and cities (including existing towns and cities) instead of lakhs of villages and towns/cities.
A “Planned Town” could be an existing town or has to be newly constructed. In the case of an existing town, new colonies will be constructed in that town and in case where there is no town existing to match the proposed structure, a new planned town will be constructed.
Why?
This planned will provide lot of benefits to rural public:
 Easy transportation - well connected with highways/roads
 Less risky of getting affected by floods
 Access to Schools/Colleges, Hospitals, Electricity, Safe drinking water
 Employment/business opportunities
This will also solve other big problems that India is currently facing:
Urbanization: Since employment/business opportunities are becoming thinner and thinner in villages, people are migrating to cities making it extremely difficult for government to cope up with population rise in cities. As people will see lot of opportunities in nearby small towns, they will rather stay back and stay close to their families.
Governance: An MLA constituency will consist of 1 or 2 small towns instead of hundreds of small villages. An MP constituency will consist of 5 to 10 small towns instead of nearly 500 villages. It will be easier for governments to implement any schemes as the no of layers will be drastically cut down with this structure. There will not be lakhs of panchayats, mandals anymore but ~25000 municipalities/corporations that make India.
Business: Business prospects will be exponential and corporates will come forward and setup their ventures in these small towns thus providing huge employment and business prospects.
How?
Tie up with economic housing solutions provided by Tata (there are others too) to construct the above mentioned colonies/towns. Provide them at a very affordable rent/lease for (only for) people living in nearby villages. Convince them by explaining the benefits of living in smaller towns. Assure them they do not lose of existing houses in their villages but are only migrating to have better lives and they can come back to their villages if/when desired.

But what motivates rural public to migrate to smaller (proposed) towns? The biggest obstacle for majority for migration is that people living in villages own farming lands and cattle. This brings up the next category of the project.

Collective Farming

What?
Majority of the farmers (esp. small farmers) solely live on farming coz there is no other job OR that's all they know about. Hence collective farming should be introduced wherein farmers lease their farming lands for relatively longer period of 10 to 25yrs. The lease amount will be paid in the form of shares (and not money). Also the farmers (at least 1 person from family) will work as employees in this collective farming. Collective farming will in itself have strategic farming (what works for that year based on inputs of last year), insurance and smart sales strategies.
Why?
Collective farming will provide the benefits of:
 Minimum guaranteed decent living (thru monthly salaries to farmers)
 Ensured profits (with strategic farming and sales)
 No loss at all (Insurance coverage)
 Decent returns (with share values growth) and yet own lands (as it is only leased but not sold)
How?
Setup collective farming groups for every small planned town (explained in section1) and run it as a profit/loss company. Strategize farming with agriculture, horticulture, poultry, cattle etc. Provide guaranteed employment for at least 1 in the family and encourage others in the family to look for other jobs/business – will match agriculture output to dependency on agriculture. Employees of this collective farming will enjoy all the benefits like an employee of other companies (Health insurance, weekends, leaves etc).
All the units of collective farming will be branches of the bigger collective farming company representing whole India. This will probably become the biggest employer in the world, a profitable company yet serving the country for a social cause.

If the above two innovations are implemented, a developed India will no longer be a dream but a reality. Living in rural India (planned small towns) will not be problematic but joyful. Living on agriculture will not be a hardship but as respectable as employee of any great company.