Re: [MTC Global] Inadequate focus on rural management : Role of B-schools

Indian democracy is run because of the excellent rural management by political parties. Agriculture was/is/will be the backbone of Indian economical survival. This natural rich resource is hardly exploited for national development. We had a slogan "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" by our beloved PM Lal Bahdur Shashtri and the slogan died with his unexpected demise who had a very short tenure as PM.

China has a systematic approach for economical surge: made agriculture strong first keeping aside their principle of state ownership to some extent, the farmers started getting more finance, that helped improving education status followed by industrialisation. China as now turned into a world manufacturing hub.

The scenario in India is entirely different. We give lip-services, term farmers as "Baliraja", bows before him in five years sowing him some carrots.

We have not properly integrated agriculture with education, marketing, food processing, scientific farming and harvesting, allied agro-byproducts like herbal medicines, cosmetics, milk and other milk products, fruits, vegetable, horticulture, etc. I often visit "Akshardham" at Jalgaon where over 1000 cows are looked after and one gets over 100 products made from the cows-by-products including dung and and many other things producing products from soap-shampoo-ghee, medicines, tooth power and tooth paste, etc.. All workers are supplied with gob er gas free of cost.

Unless our leaders do not change their vision, stop neglecting the issues of agriculture like other sectors education and health care,nothing is expected to change much. Another factor in case of agriculture, they hardly can come together generating pressure on Govt. as a crying child gets attention of the mother.

It is not that Govt. has not done anything, they have certainly done something like Bazaar Samitees, subsidy, help during famines, veterinary provisions, supply of fertilisers, sugar factories, cooperative societies, etc., but mostly to the advantage of landlords and leaders. This is not to the scale desired and inclusion of one and all farmers What is the final outcomes farmers in one region lose all crops because of flood and in another because of no rain, and our morning starts with a news what is the toady's toll.of farmer suicides!

Who will go to the rescue of farmers?t

MIT, Aurangabad under the leadership of Y A Kawade, the President, and Prof. Munish Sharma, General Secretary, Gramoudyogik Shikshan Mandal, Auarngabad, a charitable education trust established in 1979, is doing her bit in the matter as:

Green Fuel Research lab.
Biomass-gas from agricultural wastes.
Running B Tech (Agriculture Egg) Programme.
Running UG programme in Food processing.
A mobile lab van for free consultation to farmers, regrading water management, soil testing, etc.
A super specialist hospital for rural patients free of cost and provision of free transport from hospital to village.
Running courses for rural industrialisation (one of the major objectives), fees concession for needy rural students, etc.

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bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:

India is an agricultural dominated country. Approximately 14.6 % of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Indian economy comes from Agriculture. It provides employment to 58.2% of the work force. Despite of this fact we have very few Management Institutes like IRMA (Institute of Rural Management Anand) who teach Rural Management as one of the primary domain like HR, Finance, Operations, Marketing, etc.
How B-schools can contribute in this area? Few B-schools have done experiments in this space. It would be interesting to listen from them...........

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