Here reproduced my earlier e-mail.
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 of agricultural land to some extent about 3 decades ago, the farmers started getting more finance, that helped improving education status of their wards followed by industrialisation. China as of now turned into a world manufacturing hub.
The scenario in India is entirely different. We give lip-services, use term for farmers as "Baliraja", bows before him in five years showing 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 more other 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 attitude and vision, stop neglecting the issues of agriculture like other sectors education and health care,nothing concrete is expected to occur/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 incidental like formation of Bazaar Samitees, subsidy, help during famines, veterinary provisions, supply of fertilisers, sugar factories, cooperative societies, etc., but mostly to the advantage of landlords, middle man and leaders. However, such provisions are not to the scale desired and the principle of inclusion of one and all farmers is miserably missing 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? Can individuals, NGOs, and public at large play their part to ameliorate the situation if Govt. in a real sense unable to act upon? Yes, certainly. Here is a case.
MIT, Aurangabad under the leadership of Dr. 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 and back.
- Running courses for rural industrialisation (one of the major objectives), fees concession for needy rural students, etc.
Regards,
Dr. P H Waghodekar, PhD (Egg), IIT,KGP, IE&M, 1985,
Advisor (HR), IBS & PME (PG)
Marathwada Institute of Technology,
NH 211, Beed by pass road,
Aurangabad: 431010 (Maharashtra) INDIA.
(O) 02402375113 (M) 7276661925
E-Mail: waghodekar@rediffmail.com
Website: www.mit.asia
and
Chairman, Advisory Board, MTC Global, Bangalore.
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From: Vivek Tripathi
Sent: Sun, 09 Aug 2015 11:43:30
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Inadequate focus on rural management : Role of B-schools
Problems and issues are many. Being agricultural economy basically, agriculture is no where. We came across various data and statistics discussed here too, we have identified problems- political, university patterns and focus and so on. We know but issue is what can be done solution part. There are two approaches-
1 identify, analyse problems and suggest probable solutions for others viz. What govt should do? What university should do? What. Other institutions should do?
2 start doing something? As a part of so called intellectual society member its our responsibility to contribute something positive.
Being faculty members we can surely contribute at individual/ group levels just we need to cone out of our comfort zones. Who stops from training, sensitization, field visits, live projects and so on..we do this, we did this and realised change is possible...
--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...........--EDUCATE, EMPOWER, ELEVATEpresident@mtcglobal.orgCell: +91 96323 18178 / +91 81520 60465 / +91 7411716392
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