INDIAN VILLAGE

INDIAN VILLAGE:
How many of you have visited a village recently in India?? Not CWG village I mean.
Pathetic is the word I can use for most of the villages in Western Orissa. The roads are washed away in rain due to substandard construction; the schools are used as cowshed during monsoon. Villages bring back some of your childhood nostalgic memories as they are only for name sake, people have migrated to towns. Who is responsible for it? We are responsible, not to have returned back to our respective ones after retirement. But the love for one’s village is enough criteria or something else is required for a senior citizen? The answer is simple- the medical, electricity, water, communication and marketing facilities were all neglected during our planning programme. Our MPs and MLAs stayed away from villages for years together but could win elections after election through dubious means.They are present day king, press is in their hands so also the TV channels, some even have their own.Towns and cities are overcrowded, villages have a deserted look. Parental lands are being sold for a song in most of the Odisha villages like Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar district. Lands are purchased by illegal migrants from neighboring countries; ministers keep quite because these people go to cast 100% votes.

With a whipping Rs: 70000 crores (see the photographs)spent for this 3rd grade sports event (after Olympic and world sports) the Indian public will be busy with Dushera festival and after a week or so the Media will high light how we have benefited by this mega event called Common Wealth Games.
Every second day the odiya news papers publish photos of school children sitting under trees instead of school building as the walls are broken or roof is missing or school children taking their mid day meals on dirty surface along with stray dogs. My appeal :To Whom It May Concern is that we must use the public money in the right direction like maintenance of schools and colleges, village ponds, roads to villages, libraries, play grounds, drinking water facilities and well equipped health centers.
With so much of corruption our PM kept quiet even though he is the head of the state, if I am clean but people surrounding me are corrupt then I have to be part of it ,simply can’t escape by keep on saying(Media) that I am not aware of all these, keep quiet and be a goody goody PM.
We can have nice villages all over India with these Rs: 70000 crores. So let the public, press, Sen.’s and Ban’s find out a way to revive our villages up to the standard of Common Wealth game’s villages, if at all this is what a village means by international standards.