Today India as a country and we as its citizens speak out proudly about the overall developements in the country, and surely when we look at the global impact that we have now is something that supports our views.
But are we really heading in the right direction or is it something that has been put in our minds to hide out the facts that exist underneath the blanket. Let's analyse a little !!!
History of India tells us that we are a country of farmers, where agriculture has been our economic backbone for ages, but all this seems to be history now,
things have started to change. Urbanization is the magic word, you look around and you will notice the changes in culture. More people walking away from agriculture
and walking towards urban area in search of work. So far so good !!! We have the results in front of us to write down a long list of benifits, but are we missing something here ?
we sure are !! all of the good that urbanization brings in, there are a few grey areas too and some of these threaten to be a majaor causes of concerns.
One of them most definitely is the rate of decline of agricultural lands and lack of farmers willing to continue farming.
Today the prices for agricultural comodities are at their highest. Although we hear our politicains blame the global market, but the point is we have never been dependent
on the global market for the basic agro based products. The only reason that I can figure out is neglegence towards a sector that is supposed to be our strength.
Urbanization does not by any stretch of imagination mean wiping out agriculture from your country and specially with the country like ours where the whole dynamics including whether, land etc are tailor made of agriculture.
With the decline of agricluture we are in the near future on the verge of creating huge slum areas in all of our major cities. With the increasing number of farmers migrating more and more farm land is going to vanish.This is a phase of self destruction which if allowed to continue can ruin a country. Why does a farmer commit suicide ?
we get all the statistics for farmer suicides, we watch on television tons of wheat left out in open to be damamged in rains, and then we sit at home wondoring why the hell
my CHAPATI is costing me so much ???.
These are a few qestions that are already answered !!! the INFRATRUCTURE !!! its poor, with the growing populations we need more storage places.
The education system needs to be such that it does not explicitly stress on Urbanization, but also reintroduces agriculture as a positive and a career building option.
This is the time, if things drift the way they are now then I am not sure how much of urbanization is good enough. There needs to be a right balance so as to form a stable economy.
We don't need an India with only factories emitting smoke and machine like human beings working in IT & BPO industries etc.
DO WE ?????
